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Wholesale egg prices were still climbing last month, as egg supplies tightened up at the start of the autumn run into Christmas. With the temporary summer surpluses all cleared away, wholesale prices have now moved ahead for two successive months on both colony and...
SPOT ration costs showed little movement for a third consecutive month in September. Overall, the formulation price of our basic layers ration, at around £135, has gained just £6 a tonne since the start of the new cereals marketing year in July. See also: Global...
Europe's poultrymeat sector is facing a complex outlook for the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026, according to the latest quarterly report from Rabobank. Strong demand for affordable protein continues to buoy the market, but various factors are creating...
POULTRY is edging ever closer to accounting for half of all the meat produced in the UK. In the second quarter of this year, poultrymeat’s share of UK carcase meat output rose to 48.6%, up from 48.2% a year earlier. See also: E13 Professor David Hughes’ Keynote...
Brazilian chicken exports to both the UK and the European Union are set to resume after restrictions imposed following an outbreak of avian influenza earlier this year were lifted. The European Commission confirmed last week that Brazilian poultry can once again enter...
TURKEY placings have remained weak this summer, with the latest August figures showing a substantial fall. Poult numbers in August were down by 40% compared with a year ago, which is an unprecedented drop for one of the peak months for starting birds in readiness...
EGG wholesale prices turned upwards again this month after slipping backwards for four months during the summer. Both free rage and colony prices made up some lost ground, especially on colony as the move out of the intensive system begins to bite. See also: Free...
Egg and poultry producers have benefitted from another month of stable feed raw material costs. The first couple of months of the cereals marketing year have brought little to ruffle the subdued tone to the global market for the key feed ingredients. See...
HIGHER egg prices hit the headlines in some leading news sources this week, after the latest inflation figures were released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). One story, on the BBC News website, carried the headline Rising egg prices push food inflation to...
THE placings season for Christmas turkeys has got off to a slow start this summer, showing a 20 per cent drop to date compared with last year. Poult numbers traditionally start to peak in June, and run through to September before returning to typical monthly levels....
THE UK laying flock looks set to make another push forward in the last few months of this year. As the deadline begins to run out for the supermarkets’ switch away from colony egg sales in 2025, the industry looks to have almost caught up on the building of the new...
THE new crop season for feed wheat has opened at its lowest price level for five years. UK feed wheat stood at £166/t at the end of July, which is £11/t lower than a year ago and £87/t less than in 2022. See also: Eggs and chicken price inflation slows...