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UK eggs amongst the safest in the world

Figures released by Defra and the European Union show that the United Kingdom has done much better than other leading European egg producing countries...

01/02/2010 12:45

New EU salmonella report good news for British eggs

The status of UK egg production as among the safest in the world has been reinforced by the results of the latest EU Salmonella report, with 99% of UK...

29/01/2010 06:10

Opinions divided in run-up to cage ban

John Retson is not alone in his concern that the market could become oversupplied with free range eggs. John Campbell of Glenrath Farms is also worrie...

22/01/2010 08:43

Happy Eggs awarded 'Most successful grocery brand launched in 2009'

The happy egg co., the free-range egg producer has been awarded 'most successful grocery brand launched in 2009' by mySupermarket Insights.

10/12/2009 17:11

Europe will 'buckle' as member states fail to meet cage ban deadline

Half of the hens currently in conventional cages in European Union states will fail to make the switch to enriched cages by the January 2012 deadline,...

10/12/2009 16:36

Free range egg producers should improve management to improve productivity

Free range egg producers could do better. That was the view put forward by Steve Pritchard of Premier nutrition and chairman of the Nuffield Poultry S...

10/12/2009 11:35

Lion roars for Noble Foods

Noble Foods has announced that only Lion quality eggs will go into its egg processing facilities from next year.

The announcement was mad...

10/12/2009 11:27

BEIC condemns government inaction

British Egg Industry Council chairman Andrew Parker has blasted Government inaction after imported Spanish eggs were linked to two deaths and a spate ...

10/12/2009 11:25

Government seeks protection for UK egg producers

The Minister for Farming and Environment, Jim Fitzpatrick, has re-affirmed his determination to seek protection for UK egg producers from other EU sta...

10/11/2009 15:44

EU should prepare for flood of sub-standard eggs expert warns

Sub-standard eggs will flood into the EU as a result of the European Union's ban on conventional cages. That is one of the conclusions of a new st...

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Chairmans Comments

This will be my last comment. As you know I am now no longer Chairman having handed over to John Retson at the AGM. I have much enjoyed my nine years in the Chair. Free Range egg production has come a long way in the last fifteen years with regular and sustained annual growth. This looks likely to continue. Of course there have been problems but this can be expected and anyway they are not problems - just opportunities.

I am sure that the long term future of free range is excellent. I suspect we may be in for a rocky period over the next two years but we will certainly not be alone in this. Margins are bound to be squeezed as the country tries to claw its way out of recession. I am though, relieved, that we are in the agricultural sector. I fear that things will be much worse for others. It is rumoured that there may be a world shortage of food in the not too distant future. For the first time since the war politicians are talking about food security. But that could be to our advantage and I am hopeful that we may be entering a period of relative agricultural prosperity - but not for a while.

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Feed Mill Report

Wheat is in plentiful supply and yet prices continue to follow Chicago and currency; we fail to see any logic in this market. Like most other feed compounders we have bought some wheat forward and continue to top up month by month, rather than commit significant volumes forward.

It is estimated that the UK will have exported 850,000 tonne by the end of the year, with at least another 1.5 mln T still to be exported by the end of the season. EU export markets continue to be taken by the Ukraine, which exports regardless of their cost of production. At some point they will run out (from more than likely from over exporting), at which point the pendulum will swing in favour of UK wheat being the most competitive.

Some traders fear that that the belated opening of the UK's first bio-fuel plant on Tee-side in the spring could lift prices towards the end of the season, but that is just a taste of things to come; by next harvest another plant will be on-line and new crop prices are marked at £12 above this season's as a result.

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Tom Barron Ltd Catforth, Preston, Lancashire PR4 0HQ Tel 01772 690111

Country Fresh Pullets Morton, Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 8BH Tel 01691 831020

J. S. R. Services Ltd 3 Isla Road, Altamount Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland PH10 6RR Tel 07831 541703

Blue Barns Hatchery Ouston Villa Farm, Pelton, Chester-le-Street, County Durham DH2 1LN Tel 0191 410 2809

Hinchliffes Sunnyside Farm, Netherton Moor Road, Huddersfield West Yorkshire Tel 01484 661231

Noble Foods Ltd The Moor, Bilsthorpe, Notts NG22 8TS Tel 01623 870384

Potters Poultry Willey Fields Farm, Willey, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 0SQ Tel 01455 553234

Peter Dodds Pullets Hillside Poultry Farm Newmarket Road Royston, Herts Tel 01763 243667

Allan Hood Shootash Poultry Farm Salisbury Road Shootash, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 6GA Tel 01794 522159

M.J. Hayward & Sons Green Farm, North Gorley, Fordingbridge, Hants SP6 2PB Tel 01425 652007

Fridays Ltd Chequer Tree Farm, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3PN Tel 01580 710200

Farm Fresh Hatcheries Ltd 132 Blackgate Lane, Tarleton, Preston Lancs PR4 6UU Tel 01772 814081

Jansen UK Leighbridge Works, Calverleigh, Tiverton. Devon EX16 8BE Tel 01884 243135

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