Egg market well supplied

Consumer prices lower than they have been for a long time

There is currently no shortage of eggs on the German market, and local consumers can expect very reasonable prices in the near future. Demand is not keeping pace with increasing production in Germany and other EU countries; Especially during the holiday season there is not so much interest in buying eggs. This keeps market prices at their low level.

At the shop level, in June a pack of ten eggs, most of which were caged, weight class M, cost an average of just 90 cents, nine cents less than in June 2003 and just as little as in 2002 and 2001. The retail price for eggs from conventional free-range husbandry, weight class M, remained stable in June at an average of 1,82 euros per ten pieces. It was thus eight cents higher than in the same month last year and ten cents higher than in June 2002, but compared to June 2001 the price advantage is only one cent.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]