How much for eggs now?

Hall said:
In '23, 60 million were culled. In '22, 140 million were culled. Egg prices weren't impacted (at least not like today).... 🤔 We are being played for fools.
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And the farmers are as well because most of the price increase stays with the distributors.

Something you may not realize is that bananas (we actually eat) went commercially extinct in the 50’s
The ones we eat now are also on the way to going commercially extinct. (Intractable blight and disease)

Citrus is also going commercially extinct as it’s being killed off by an intractable bug.

The food landscape might need to change dramatically in 5-10 years, at least with eggs we could actually go old school with pullets, I find it amusing we don’t but I bet industry expects these cheap and has all the small stuff under contract for liquid eggs that go to fast food, dog food and canning
 
Rmay635703 said:
And the farmers are as well because most of the price increase stays with the distributors.

Something you may not realize is that bananas (we actually eat) went commercially extinct in the 50’s
The ones we eat now are also on the way to going commercially extinct. (Intractable blight and disease)

Citrus is also going commercially extinct as it’s being killed off by an intractable bug.

The food landscape might need to change dramatically in 5-10 years, at least with eggs we could actually go old school with pullets, I find it amusing we don’t but I bet industry expects these cheap and has all the small stuff under contract for liquid eggs that go to fast food, dog food and canning
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I agree I have bought organic and regular grocery store bananas. And 90% of the time there is absolutely no flavor at all they just don't taste like they used to.
 
Iets not forget about our beef here in the US. And specifically here in California most beef we get even though it has the stamp USDA stamp on it does not mean it was grown and harvested here.
We currently have a legislative agreement that if the butcher cuts it here then he can mark it with the USDA stamp.

But that is going to change in 2026. Any beef with the USDA stamp has to be grown and harvested in the USA! About **** time and why is it taking so long?
 
Rmay635703 said:
And the farmers are as well because most of the price increase stays with the distributors.

Something you may not realize is that bananas (we actually eat) went commercially extinct in the 50’s
The ones we eat now are also on the way to going commercially extinct. (Intractable blight and disease)

Citrus is also going commercially extinct as it’s being killed off by an intractable bug.

The food landscape might need to change dramatically in 5-10 years, at least with eggs we could actually go old school with pullets, I find it amusing we don’t but I bet industry expects these cheap and has all the small stuff under contract for liquid eggs that go to fast food, dog food and canning
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So maybe I missed it - but google tells me a Pullet is a young female chicken. So how does this help us, and why don't we do it now?
 
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SC Maintenance said:
So maybe I missed it - but google tells me a Pullet is a young female chicken. So how does this help us, and why don't we do it now?
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Young chickens are less likely to get bird flu and there are specific breeds that start laying at 4 months and although they grow moderately quickly with minimal inputs they don’t get huge like roasters and likely would need to be butchered at 8-12 months.

Understand “spring chickens” as they used to be called are not the industrial laying hens that take longer to mature and produce larger more uniform eggs efficiently. They aren’t really laying hens and are a hybrid that neither lays lots of large eggs, nor do they become gigantic birds for roasters.

Consumers would likely not want to buy Small eggs with more variability. (1/2-2/3’s a large egg)

Producers likely don’t want to handle them as some are easier to break and their machinery isn’t setup for either the breed of chicken or the eggs they produce. This also would put egg producers in the meat market but with smaller birds that grocery stores don’t want.

Lastly I would guess industrial customers (fast food, liquid/dried eggs, dog food makers) likely are contracted at the lowest price for the eggs that aren’t grade A large.

It would take flexibility and a re-think of the industry which we simply aren’t any good at. The big guys expect very predictable, low interaction, uniform inputs and outputs, ZERO change and usually either sell eggs or meat, not both like family farms.

This is why it’s a **** shame all the small farms were eliminated with a pen stroke in the 80’s because farm market eggs usually are grown atypically in a sustainable way.
 
Rmay635703 said:
And the farmers are as well because most of the price increase stays with the distributors.

Something you may not realize is that bananas (we actually eat) went commercially extinct in the 50’s
The ones we eat now are also on the way to going commercially extinct. (Intractable blight and disease)

Citrus is also going commercially extinct as it’s being killed off by an intractable bug.

The food landscape might need to change dramatically in 5-10 years, at least with eggs we could actually go old school with pullets, I find it amusing we don’t but I bet industry expects these cheap and has all the small stuff under contract for liquid eggs that go to fast food, dog food and canning
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Well, in 2032 we are going to get hit* with a pretty big meteor, so I would not fret the small stuff.

*Odds keep changing, maybe as high as 2.3% chance. Maybe bigger than the one that made Meteor Crater in Arizona.
 
Rmay635703 said:
Young chickens are less likely to get bird flu and there are specific breeds that start laying at 4 months and although they grow moderately quickly with minimal inputs they don’t get huge like roasters and likely would need to be butchered at 8-12 months.

Understand “spring chickens” as they used to be called are not the industrial laying hens that take longer to mature and produce larger more uniform eggs efficiently. They aren’t really laying hens and are a hybrid that neither lays lots of large eggs, nor do they become gigantic birds for roasters.

Consumers would likely not want to buy Small eggs with more variability. (1/2-2/3’s a large egg)

Producers likely don’t want to handle them as some are easier to break and their machinery isn’t setup for either the breed of chicken or the eggs they produce. This also would put egg producers in the meat market but with smaller birds that grocery stores don’t want.

Lastly I would guess industrial customers (fast food, liquid/dried eggs, dog food makers) likely are contracted at the lowest price for the eggs that aren’t grade A large.

It would take flexibility and a re-think of the industry which we simply aren’t any good at. The big guys expect very predictable, low interaction, uniform inputs and outputs, ZERO change and usually either sell eggs or meat, not both like family farms.

This is why it’s a **** shame all the small farms were eliminated with a pen stroke in the 80’s because farm market eggs usually are grown atypically in a sustainable way.
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Yes, we would be way better off with many family farms growing food for 500 people rather than huge factory farm growing food for 5M people.
 
Rmay635703 said:
Young chickens are less likely to get bird flu and there are specific breeds that start laying at 4 months and although they grow moderately quickly with minimal inputs they don’t get huge like roasters and likely would need to be butchered at 8-12 months.

Understand “spring chickens” as they used to be called are not the industrial laying hens that take longer to mature and produce larger more uniform eggs efficiently. They aren’t really laying hens and are a hybrid that neither lays lots of large eggs, nor do they become gigantic birds for roasters.

Consumers would likely not want to buy Small eggs with more variability. (1/2-2/3’s a large egg)

Producers likely don’t want to handle them as some are easier to break and their machinery isn’t setup for either the breed of chicken or the eggs they produce. This also would put egg producers in the meat market but with smaller birds that grocery stores don’t want.

Lastly I would guess industrial customers (fast food, liquid/dried eggs, dog food makers) likely are contracted at the lowest price for the eggs that aren’t grade A large.

It would take flexibility and a re-think of the industry which we simply aren’t any good at. The big guys expect very predictable, low interaction, uniform inputs and outputs, ZERO change and usually either sell eggs or meat, not both like family farms.

This is why it’s a **** shame all the small farms were eliminated with a pen stroke in the 80’s because farm market eggs usually are grown atypically in a sustainable way.
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I lived in Pillow, PA from 2014-2017 (town of 200) in Central PA.

About five miles from Pillow was an egg processing plant called Michael's Foods. Michael's plant purchased irregular eggs, eggs with cracked shells, etc. Michael's took the irregular eggs, processed the eggs, repackaged the eggs, and sold the different packaged eggs. These processed eggs would go to different locations. Some examples of the destination of the eggs would be free hotel breakfasts. The hotel would get a one gallon package of uncooked, yet pasteurized pre- scrambled eggs. I am sure fast food restaurants, prisons, etc. were all consumers of Michael's egg products.
 
Leo99 said:
At my local large supermarket for one dozen:

large: $8.69
Ex large: $8.74
Jumbo: $8.79

We bought jumbos for the first time. They don't fit well in our egg holder. A couple were super jumbo and very noticeably larger than the rest.
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WOW - Twice what we pay !
 
SC Maintenance said:
Yes, we would be way better off with many family farms growing food for 500 people rather than huge factory farm growing food for 5M people.
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Agreed. There were a lot of factors for small producers like us going out of business, the main one was NAFTA. Canada started subsidizing their farmers and dumping huge amounts of dirt cheap ag products into the US market. Lot of my neighbors either sold off the farm, or put their land into CRP. Super farms became the norm after that. We were lucky our overhead wasnt high.
 
Went to Meijer after work. 2-dozen large eggs under the Meijer brand (yellow styrofoam container) went up 90-cents and was now $11.99.

Eggland's Best, 2-dozen large eggs, white not brown, in the white styrofoam container - $8.99. This is regular price, not a sale.

🤯
 
opus1 said:
It's been slightly below that here; the bigger shock was the name-brand being $3 cheaper than the store-brand.
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That was walmart the other day. $6.99 for their "cheap" brand, $6.31 for Eggland best - my normal brand.

Suppliers probably don't change prices in unison and walmart isn't sophisticated enough to keep up, which is actually pretty funny when you think about it.
 
opus1 said:
Went to Meijer after work. 2-dozen large eggs under the Meijer brand (yellow styrofoam container) went up 90-cents and was now $11.99.

Eggland's Best, 2-dozen large eggs, white not brown, in the white styrofoam container - $8.99. This is regular price, not a sale.

🤯
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EB large is $4.22/dozen here …
 
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