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Egg prices in Poland have risen sharply, with industrial-grade eggs nearly doubling year on year. EU egg prices have climbed about 30% since August, and consumer prices are rising around 5% a week.
The Polish Ministry of Agriculture links the increase to fipronil contamination on farms in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, along with bird flu in Italy.
Fewer hens and contamination-related culls reduce EU egg supply, which pushes up prices across the bloc. The effect on feed demand is limited, but the episode highlights tight European poultry supply.
thepoultrysite.comRachel Ralte More from this authorNov 2, 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.
