food prices - eggs

[Mr_Yan]

I was talking to my mom down in South Carolina and it sounds like basic food items have big regional differences in price. She was getting a dozen eggs - basic grocery store large - for about $1.50 where they're on sale this week here for $2.79 a dozen. On the other hand I am paying half what she was for beef.

At $2.79 we've cut eggs from our diet and I am kind of missing them enough to contemplate laying hens - too bad winter is starting.

What are you guys paying for eggs?

 

[w_r_ranch]

They're the same here in the grocery stores... If we need eggs, our friend down the road gives us whatever we need.

 

[ErnieCopp]

People are paying a\ lot more for FREE RANGE EGGS without knowing what they are getting. My daughter's suburban horse farm backs up to a chicken farm, that used to be a Cage operation.

California came out with a lot of resttrictions on Caged Hens, so he converted to Free Range, which is just Chickens crowded in pens with mud and manure bottoms, and is a real mess when it rains. No shelter, they are in the weather all the time.

That is Progress????

Errnie