# Packers raise prices as egg market remains tight - Poultry Network

> UK egg packers have raised free-range farmgate prices by roughly 3-5 pence per dozen in recent weeks as the market stays tight after six weeks of lockdown. Retail demand is strong while catering demand has collapsed, and colony egg wholesale prices reached a two-year high.

- Date: 2020-05-02 · published 2020-05-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region UK · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53137-packers-raise-prices-as-egg-market-remains-tight-poultry-network
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Tight UK egg supply and firm wholesale prices support egg prices and reduce availability of eggs as a low-cost feed-adjacent protein, with limited surplus to ease the market.

## Sources

- poultry.network: https://poultry.network/packers-raise-prices-as-egg-market-remains-tight/

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