The design leaves something everything to be desired (in part because it’s a PDF I guess), but it’s to the point and says last update was 2025-03-19 so apparently it’s kept up to date.
One thing I thought kinda interesting is that it seems the gap in price between cage/barn and free range eggs is closing. Not sure why this would be, perhaps due to stricter requirements on space per chicken in cage/barn removes the advantage compared to free range? Also interesting that the price of organic eggs seems like it’s increasing at a much slower pace than other categories.
Good thing I have two chickens
Kind of weird that Ukraine is at war, but they are sending us 68,037 tonnes of eggs in 2024 Jan-Nov? (last page)
But apart from that, a very nice and steady market. 👍
They’ve still got an economy to run and they’ve got a lot of productive agriculture in the country. Once the people are fed, anything left over is worth exporting for money. Also, though, while the number of people fighting is enormous and the number displaced is even greater, it’s still a minority of the total population. There are about a million in the armed forces, 6 million refugees outside of Ukraine, and 8 million within Ukraine. That makes 15 million total. There are about 33 million people in the country (a number which doesn’t include the 6 million external refugees, I believe), so that’s 24 million still trying to live life as normally as they can
Thank you for sharing this, it is really interesting. I think the answer for the closing gap is price gauging. It’s in the news, that prices for eggs in the US are going up. So they get away with rising prices without grounds.
Never felt so proud for being European.
