“These changes force supply chains to quickly adapt and prepare, so you’re seeing temporary shortages,” she says. Shelby Myers, an economist with the Farm Bureau, says what we’re seeing right now in a larger sense is not a shortage of food but swiftly changing consumer patterns. People eat more eggs when they are home and families are together,” he said. “I don’t have a crystal ball, but we think there may be an uptick in consumption. Russell Diez-Canseco wonders if self-quarantining, sheltering in place and renewed family togetherness will cause a change in egg consumption overall. So, some of the hoarders will bust out their stockpile to dip and swirl with food coloring to hide in the backyard on April 12. “We are expecting Easter demand will be lower because people aren’t entertaining, and there will be no group Easter events.” Are they going to pull from inventory they have in their house or look to supplement?” Dresner asked. “People traditionally buy eggs in the next week or so.
Google searches for baking recipes without eggs have spiked.ĭresner doubts Easter will exacerbate the situation. Wholesale egg prices have risen 180 percent since the beginning of March, according to Urner Barry, which does market price reporting. But we are dealing with live animals, and it takes time to increase flock size.”Īccording to Nielsen data, sales of eggs in shells went up 44 percent for the week ending March 14 compared with a year ago, with retailers ordering six times normal volume. “Our egg farmers are working hard to meet this demand. “Production has been largely unaffected by coronavirus,” he said. Marc Dresner, director of marketing and communications at American Egg Board, does not see the current situation as a supply shortage. “Most suppliers build in some extra inventory for Easter, but retailers have burned through that inventory.” “The reality is we don’t have twice as many eggs as we did in January,” he said. According to chief executive Russell Diez-Canseco, that is up to 150 percent more than normal. Vital Farms, the largest supplier of naturally raised eggs in the United States, shipped 15 million eggs to 13,000 grocery stores last week. But that takes time: It takes 22 weeks for a chick to become a laying hen. But if Americans - now cooped up and stress-baking for their families - continue to markedly change their cooking behaviors, American egg producers will have to grow their flocks. Experts say this is an on-shelf shortage, that there are enough eggs in the works. Americans are stockpiling eggs and it’s about a week from peak pre-Easter egg buying. Any amount of heckling and cajoling will not change that. Ma/ The Washington Post / – A chicken will lay about an egg a day. There are eggs in the pipeline, but maybe not enough.
Stress-baking and hoarding has led to a retail egg shortage. The Washington Post discussed changing consumer habits with Vital Farms’ CEO, and The New York Times talked about food supply chain issues with Cooks Venture’s CEO. SJF Ventures portfolio companies Vital Farms and Cooks Venture were mentioned in the news talking about the effects of the Coronavirus.
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