12—Lancaster Farming,
Sat., September 16,1967
Egg Prices May
Not Brighten
How will fall and winter egg
prices, October 1967 - March
1968, compare with prices a
year earlier? Will egg produc
tion drop enough to permit
favorable farm prices?
There may not be sufficient
reduction in the number of
layers on farms by early fall
to bring production in line
with a year earlier, according
to the Cooperative Extension
Service, Poultry Marketing In
formation. Even if production
is the same as a year ago, fall
and winter prices may average
lower because other factors af
fect the supply of eggs avail
able to consumers.
Through June this year the
national hatch of egg-tjpe
chicks was estimated as 2 per
cent below a year earlier. On
July 1, 1967, eggs dn incuba
tors for hatching egg-type
chicks were 11 percent below
July 1. 1966 The number of
chickens raised during 1967 in
the U S is expected to de
cline about 3 peicent below a
year earlier
As of July 1 there were still
5 percent more layers on farms
than a year eaiher Unless the
rate of culling hens is increas
ed the nation’s laying flock
Will likely remain above last
year’s numbeis until late tall
or winter
Even though monthly egg
pioduction may equal or is
slightly less than a year ago
late 1967 fall prices may re
main below a year ago Be
cause fewer pounds of fiozen
and dried eggs were available
in the 1968 fall and winter
months, liquid, frozen and
dried egg production increas
ed sharply in September
through March which strength
ened table egg prices These
monthly increases ranged from
4 to 83 percent more than the
corresponding 1965 and 1966
months Increased production
of frozen and dried eggs last
spring, 1967, will reduce the
need for breaking stock this
fall and winter Thus some of
the factors sti engthemng last
year’s price will be absent this
fall and winter.
Hatching egg needs, al
though possibly higher than a
year earlier, will not add to
price strength as much as they
did in the end of 1966 and the
beginning of 1967. Then there
was a sharp increase in chick
hatching for both broilers and
laying hens
Military purchases will prob
ably be about the 'same as a
year ago Shell eggs in storage
also are well above last year’s
levels How soon these shell
eggs move from storage into
consumer channels is the im
portant factor
One cannot overlook the de
mand for eggs when apprais
ing egg price prospects At
times during the past year,
some believed that consumer
demand had increased It is
assumed that demand will re
main steady this fall and win
ter
MEANING OF “ENRICHED”
When you see the word ‘’en
riched” on bread, flour, and
other cereal products, it means
that iron, riboflavin, niacin,
and thiamine are added, says
Louise Hamilton Penn State
extension foods and nutrition
specialist Highly refined cere
al foods are “enriched” to re
store the levels of these four
nutiients to the amount found
in the whole grain, or some
times in excess of whole grain
levels. Federal and state gov
ernments set the standard lev
els of enrichment.
Rivers of U. S carry some
513 million tons of sediment
into the seas each year.
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