FWIW, It seems the crazy egg prices aren't as bad for organic/cage free/whatever. BJ's right now, store brand 5 dozen is $22 or 36.7 cents/egg. Egglands Best Cage Free is $8 for 24, or 33.3 cents/egg. Free range store brand brown eggs are $7 for 24, 29.2 cents/egg.
Are we able to reserve online to ensure stock availability?
How sad that EGGS make it to SD 😒
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A dozen eggs is $2.79 at Kroger by me. It's $0.20 cheaper than last week. However, they are not cage free or organic. Maybe, prices of eggs are coming down.
Popped into Costco a couple days ago, 5 dozen large was 14.44 (2.88 dozen or 0.24 each). Winco was close to same at 14.99 (2.99 dozen). However, a dozen at Winco was hovering close to $5 and 18 was around $8. Pays to buy in bulk?
I've been buying 5 dz for years. The great thing about eggs is that they last a long time refrigerated (or if you can get farm eggs, e.g. not washed, they can last 12+mo if you store them right).
A dozen eggs is $2.79 at Kroger by me. It's $0.20 cheaper than last week. However, they are not cage free or organic. Maybe, prices of eggs are coming down.
No they are not coming down but might be up. I watched an interview. The markets is the one doing the damage, not the farmers. The farmers said they have been selling the eggs the same price as always BUT the stupid markets marks it up and won't give more money to the farmers. Now the farmers do have inflation and they can't keep up if the markets won't pay them a fair share.
Egg laying hens have been hit the hardest. Nearly 60 million birds have died. Mostly egg laying hens. The cost increase also has to do with increasing fuel, feed and packaging costs.
If the pricing issue is genuinely "bird flu" then prices should come back down basically as fast as they rose. That's because it takes ~ 20 weeks ish for chickens to go from hatch to laying. So if you have to cull a ton of birds, supply drops, but then assuming that the malady is taken care of, you should have replaced your egg laying capacity in 20 weeks + time to procure new birds.
And (not you) but in regards to "record profits" - realize that like most commodities, pricing is determined by the market. So if you're in a situation where your costs to produce haven't caught up with general market pricing, there will be some period of time where you're capturing market pricing for your product but not necessarily seeing that in your production costs, which means your profits will go up. That said, production prices will eventually rise and profit shrink.
Gas prices have come down but not food prices. Inflation / recession we are all screwed for the time being. Bought 5 doz at Costco $15.99. There is such a big demard at the store opening the egg isle was closed because they were bringing in pallets of eggs.
Gas prices have come down but not food prices. Inflation / recession we are all screwed for the time being. Bought 5 doz at Costco $15.99. There is such a big demard at the store opening the egg isle was closed because they were bringing in pallets of eggs.
Gas prices have been going up for weeks now. Yes, most of us are screwed!
Good thing MO has a massive amount of chicken farmers.. we still get 12 pack $2.79 "organic" (sure whatever) "Cage free" (yeah ok) eggs. I don't even eat eggs anymore, but they are still cheap here.
If the pricing issue is genuinely "bird flu" then prices should come back down basically as fast as they rose. That's because it takes ~ 20 weeks ish for chickens to go from hatch to laying. So if you have to cull a ton of birds, supply drops, but then assuming that the malady is taken care of, you should have replaced your egg laying capacity in 20 weeks + time to procure new birds.
And (not you) but in regards to "record profits" - realize that like most commodities, pricing is determined by the market. So if you're in a situation where your costs to produce haven't caught up with general market pricing, there will be some period of time where you're capturing market pricing for your product but not necessarily seeing that in your production costs, which means your profits will go up. That said, production prices will eventually rise and profit shrink.
Great info. Thanks for sharing. So we should be seeing prices come down before Memorial Day if we're lucky.
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Very SAD, that's American's great saving plan for you LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
No they are not coming down but might be up. I watched an interview. The markets is the one doing the damage, not the farmers. The farmers said they have been selling the eggs the same price as always BUT the stupid markets marks it up and won't give more money to the farmers. Now the farmers do have inflation and they can't keep up if the markets won't pay them a fair share.
If the pricing issue is genuinely "bird flu" then prices should come back down basically as fast as they rose. That's because it takes ~ 20 weeks ish for chickens to go from hatch to laying. So if you have to cull a ton of birds, supply drops, but then assuming that the malady is taken care of, you should have replaced your egg laying capacity in 20 weeks + time to procure new birds.
And (not you) but in regards to "record profits" - realize that like most commodities, pricing is determined by the market. So if you're in a situation where your costs to produce haven't caught up with general market pricing, there will be some period of time where you're capturing market pricing for your product but not necessarily seeing that in your production costs, which means your profits will go up. That said, production prices will eventually rise and profit shrink.
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And (not you) but in regards to "record profits" - realize that like most commodities, pricing is determined by the market. So if you're in a situation where your costs to produce haven't caught up with general market pricing, there will be some period of time where you're capturing market pricing for your product but not necessarily seeing that in your production costs, which means your profits will go up. That said, production prices will eventually rise and profit shrink.
Great info. Thanks for sharing. So we should be seeing prices come down before Memorial Day if we're lucky.
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