You may have seen that there's a little bit of an egg shortage, in fact there might be egg rationing.
So what is going on and why is there an egg shortage?
Anyway, it's mainly down to the supermarkets, one in particular I'll give you, I'll mention because
they're probably taking the piss the most out of farmers.
Anyway, Sainsbury's, so I'm just going to show you this graph now.
So here it is, so basically December 21, to produce a dozen eggs cost £1.05, Sainsbury's were selling that for £2.50.
So they were making it £1.45 every dozen of eggs they retailed.
So they basically got it from the packers, put it on the shelf, made that much money.
Now, the price of producing eggs has gone up, mainly due to the war in Ukraine, avian flu, different things.
So now, the cost to produce a dozen eggs has gone up by 30, 40 pence.
It now costs £1.45 to produce a dozen eggs, but the supermarket, or specifically Sainsbury's, is only paying an extra 10 pence.
So, the cost of eggs is 30 per 10, 30 pence less than the cost of production of them.
But in the meantime in the shops they've put the price up to £3.30
so they've put the price up by 80p but only giving the farmers 10 pence more.
So that means that they're making £2.15 profit on every dozen eggs
whereas last year they were making £1.45 so their profits are up 80 pence per dozen eggs.
and the farmers are losing 30 pence a dozen eggs what is wrong with the world
the other thing is they've started importing some from Italy
and they're actually costing more than UK eggs, but it's because they don't want to fall,
they're in contracts basically with UK producers and if you give more to them,
then they'll expect it all the time, but instead, people are stopping filling the sheds with chickens
and stopping producing eggs because they can't afford to lose 30p a dozen
because it won't be long before they're out of business.
So get your Act Together savings. Also, get the Red Tractor logo back on your products
and then people know what they're buying is British.