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South Africa's egg shortage is worsening, with 23 affected egg farms removing an estimated 3.7 million eggs a day from circulation. Commercial egg production has fallen from 20.4 million to 17 million a day since H5N8 was detected in June.
Retailers warn of looming shelf shortages, and job losses have been reported.
Lower layer flock numbers cut demand for feed grains and reduce supply of an inexpensive protein, which pushes up food prices. The shortage is likely to persist until flocks are rebuilt.
thepoultrysite.comRachel Ralte More from this authorNov 3, 2017Not 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.
