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The market is quieter which is expected, some people in England are reducing prices slightly on Colony eggs, Free Range are still fairly tight but sufficient for demand, but in Scotland demand has picked up with the weather and we have heard odd reports of empty shelves.
Holland has also reduced prices but that is more linked to the problems that they are having.
There are always two sides to every problem, so we have included the piece from Compassion in World
Farming because of the lack of hard evidence (smoking gun) as to how the first AI and subsequent out breaks occurred, as they have all so far been in house systems with supposedly no access outside.
In Holland AI has been found in wild bird droppings in fields adjacent to positive infections, exactly what the link is, is debatable but most probably a breakdown in Bio-Security.
The incidence of various types of AI in wild birds is a lot more prevalent as most people understand with some species carrying but not affected with the milder forms.
The Green lobby in Germany has pushed most of the major supermarkets into a non GM position which has been transferred to their suppliers; this will push up the price for non GM grain, particularly soya.
