MAJOR retailers have pledged multi-million-pound support packages for the egg sector following widespread publicity of shortages on supermarket shelves. But despite price rises, it will be some time before the UK’s laying hen flock recovers from cutbacks in...
FAIRBURN’S EGGS is launching a ‘bed and breakfast’ egg contract that replicates a model often used in the pig sector. The firm said the new scheme would offer farmers a “guaranteed return on their investment”. See also: Sainsbury’s...