Price of Eggs - Page 3

This thread about the price of eggs, it is also as much about politics, as it is about the price of eggs at the grocery store. I wish it wasn't so. Politicians seem to be at the root cause's of a lot our problems. Politicians everywhere are about the same, all have their "hidden agendas". California stands out, we have a lot more of them, then most states, with just more "hidden agendas". A lot of players in this "egg game" inside and outside the boarders of California.

Egg producers from the states of: Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, and Iowa. All collectively spent millions working with the Humane Society of America (main sponsor) to pass Prop 2. They seemed to be very concerned in 2008 about the size of cages for egg laying hens in California. Now that they got their law passed, but California legislator says the law includes their cage sizes too, if they want to sell eggs in California. They wanted bigger cages here, but their chickens don't need bigger cages and more room. Politicians and lawyers from those states spending a lot of time in California's court rooms these days.

Their Mom's should have told them: Be careful of what you wish for! There's going to be a lot of rotten eggs, when this comes out into the open. A lot of people going to have "Eggs on their Faces".

The Humane Society of the United States.

Is not a California organization, Their main office is in Washington D.C They are not done with their influence and manipulation of California's egg industry. In 2008 they wanted larger cages for egg laying hens, that is what they got. Seems that still wasn't good enough. In 2014 they started their "cage free" campaign. In a statement released by the HSUS in first part of last year: The HSUS continues to maintain there is no question that cage-free systems are consistent with the standards required under Proposition 2 and urges the U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive legislation for the housing of laying hens. If California egg producers want to meet a lower standard than Prop 2, the U.S. Congress must pass comprehensive national legislation for the housing of laying hens.

The HSUS wants all egg producers to go "Cage Free". The egg companies from outside of California, that spent millions of dollars in California, working with HSUS to influence and change laws in California, Should be careful on "Who they get in bed with!"

$3.69 a dz now

The Humane Society of the United States is a private organization started in 1954. They certainly know how to influence governments through campaign contributions of politicians sympathetic to their causes.

Concerning the California egg law, that I believe is HSUS goal to be a national law. I copied this from their home page.
Legislation

We've helped pass 10 state laws banning extreme confinement and other factory farming practices. In 2008, The HSUS was the primary sponsor of California’s Proposition 2, a ballot initiative requiring that the state’s producers to phase out battery cages and gestation and veal crates. It passed with 63.5 percent of the vote. Two years later, California legislators passed an HSUS-spearheaded measure requiring that all shelled (whole) eggs sold statewide—regardless of where they originate—be produced in compliance with Prop 2.

My twist on this already derailed thread

the more and more I look around on this forum, the more glad I am that I found it and joined. Never did I think when I joined that I would find a post about chicken eggs, but I have to say this is great. im not a chicken lover, but I love chicken and eggs lol. my wife has 20 hens and 2 roosters and we get the eggs and they are great. local prices right now are just under 4 bucks a dozen. all I know is feed is 15 bucks for 50 pounds but I don't know how fast she burns through it, and she also usually has 5-10 chickens that are just for meat at any time. but its funny y'all are talking about egg color, we only have one foghorn leghorn that lays white eggs. then a bunch of them lay brown, but she has a breed called Americana and some lay blue eggs and some lay green, its hilarious. all I can think of is dr suess when she comes in with them.

My bro & SiL have mostly brown eggs with some just off-white towards brown. They haven't planned very well this year. The laying cycle with their birds have been typically 4 months from chicks to pullets just starting to lay and then cranking out eggs very solid for 2+ years before the hen starts to decline in production. When their flock is hitting on all cylinders, they should be getting about 80% out of the total number of hens so if you have 2 dozen than about 18-20 eggs a day. But they didn't plan on their medium-old hens now getting a year older so they still have about 2 doz hens eating the same amount of corn but are only laying about 9-11 eggs a day since sometime this summer. He doesn't want to get chicks again this fall and had looked into buying fully laying hens mail-order but they were spendy!! I went through all the local CL "farm & garden" listings (about 2,500 entries) about 2-3 weeks ago looking for folks willing to sell younger laying hens and found 2-3 potential sellers. But bro still hasn't pulled the trigger yet. You can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink....

C. Dream- Some folks in your grand state don't want anymore spud land to happen. Spuds are probably not their "buds".

I wonder if there would have been much squawk if it would have been half a dozen family farms converting several thousand acres to over 10k vs. a couple of corporations?? The end result is the same, less patches of pine in that part of the state. Or is it scale dependent no matter the ownership, "big" is bad and "small" is good?? Maybe some smaller farmer could have started a niche boutique potato business of selling and shipping by priority mail premium, organic, heirloom, etc. etc. spuds to urbanites who have more money than they know what to do with. In potato production to make money its either massive volumes (because the margins are so low) or its some sort of niche premium market, middle-sized guys will not survive over time...

R.D. Offutt's pines-to-potatoes plan is scaled back in compromise with Minnesota DNR - StarTribune.com