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Hundreds of Dutch free-range egg producers can no longer label their eggs as free range after hens were confined indoors for 16 weeks due to bird flu. Farmers' lobby LTO estimates a loss of around €5,000 a week for the sector.
Some supermarkets will keep paying the free-range price, but exports will not.
Confinement rules shift output from premium free-range to barn-egg grades, lowering farm-gate egg values. Reduced egg export access for Dutch producers adds to pressure on EU egg prices.
dutchnews.nlRobin PascoeFeb 16, 2022Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
