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SEPRA Market Report - 5th September 2014
Price doesn’t come into it; it appears if you have eggs you can ask any price on the wholesale market especially in England the comment is that supplies are not just tight but almost impossible.
The surprising thing is Central egg saying no change, but they too have very few eggs, there reasoning if that there are increasing quantities of eggs coming in to Southern England from Southern Europe.
Although there has been a cut back in production on the Continent and prices have increased there too, with the Euro decreasing in value the exchange rate makes Continental eggs competitively priced.
Last week we included the piece on the low carbon footprint of our poultry industry, it has been pointed out to us that mussels which were listed as the lowest only requiring a piece of string to grow on, we did not point out that they were produced in Shetland.
We think that our Scottish cockles have an even lower carbon footprint, they don’t require even a piece of string and can be harvested in our estuaries at low water requiring only a plank of wood, a rake and a strong back, but the main market for both mussels and cockles is the Mediterranean in seafood dishes, with the haulage required does that not make eggs and chicken the best!
The piece on Nestle and their decision to only use alternative system eggs shows how susceptible to lobbying big business conglomerates are even more so as governments with any perceived threat to their product sales, and once again it is agriculture that is being used to improve their image, but at no extra cost.
We have included the piece and letter from the British Poultry Council as it could so easily apply to our egg industry, where the press pick on a problem and blow it out of all proportion, Campylobacter is a problem which is being dealt with.
As long as you wash your hands and don’t eat your chicken raw there isn’t a problem!
The piece on Russian turkey production shows how important European technology and equipment is to them but the most important factor is European financial assistance, are sanctions having more of an effect than we appreciate and think.
