Egg prices continue to rise and hailstorms have caused serious damage

2022. April 11.

Farmers are not even out of the spring work, helped by the sudden good weather.
The news from the sector is also coming in, and here we have the latest figures and interesting facts.

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Egg prices rise worldwide and in Hungary

Inflation doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon, so it’s not at all surprising that the packing place price of table eggs (sizes M and L) has risen to 114% compared to last year.
According to foreign reports, US egg production is expected to increase, which is not significant in percentage points – 1 percent – but will weigh heavily in terms of unit production.
On a yearly basis, this year’s quarter is 2021.
Compared to the first quarter of 2021, the increase could be almost 2 per cent, which means that per capita egg consumption is expected to be that much higher.
EU imports of eggs have fallen significantly compared to last year to 18,000 tonnes, a 30 per cent drop.
Imports of eggs from Ukraine also fell more significantly, by 39%.
Imports from the USA fell by 27 per cent and Chinese imports by 34 per cent.
In 2021, exports rose by 13 percent to 284 thousand tonnes compared to the previous period.
The EU supplies most eggs to Japan, which accounts for 28 percent of exports.
Switzerland also buys significant quantities of eggs from the EU, accounting for 14 percent of total exports.
Japan and Switzerland bought a combined 118 thousand tonnes of eggs and egg products, but Japanese purchases are increasing while Swiss purchases are decreasing, although overall there is an upward trend.
There is also news from elsewhere in the world, with exports to Thailand, for example, falling to 84.5 per cent, while those to Mauritania have risen to 155 per cent.
In the first 11 weeks of this year compared to the same period last year, the European Commission shows that the price of table eggs per pack has risen by more than 18 per cent, almost reaching €150 per 100 kilograms.
The situation is no better in Hungary.
According to the data of the Market Price Information System of the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI PÁIR), the price of table eggs from cage farming in Hungary has increased by 114% to HUF 31.64 per egg.
A detailed analysis of the data shows that the price of eggs in cartons of size class “L” increased significantly by 20 per cent to HUF 38.74 per unit, while the price of eggs in size class “M” increased by HUF 33.
However, it is interesting to note that the price of tray eggs in size “L” increased less, with an increase of only 11 per cent to HUF 31.72 per unit.
Eggs of size “M” cost 28.68 HUF.
If we look at the price trend for deep dish table eggs, we see an interesting thing.
For both sizes, the price of carton eggs is lower, while the price of tray eggs is higher than the price of cage eggs.
The “M” boxed eggs cost 31.45 HUF/piece and the “M” tray eggs 35.08 HUF/piece.
The price of “L” size eggs is 36,45 HUF per carton and 44,59 HUF per tray. In conclusion, egg prices are increasing significantly and this trend is not expected to change in the coming period.

Serious damage caused by hailstorms in the country

As every year, hail caused significant damage to vegetable crops last year, including green peas, tomatoes, peppers, onions and cabbage.
In Hungary, a total of 20117 hectares of green peas were sown, 1.13% of which were damaged by hail.
4.4 percent of the districts producing green peas reported such damage.
2021.
On 23 May 2021, nearly 91 hectares were sown in the district of Turökszentmiklós, and in 2021, nearly 4.5 hectares were damaged.
25 June 2021.
On 2021, 40 hectares of green peas sown in the district of Szentlőrinci suffered ice damage.
In the Dunaújváros district, however, only 14.33% of the area was damaged.
The hail damage was caused by so-called supercells, the term meteorologists use when a thunderstorm cloud has a rotating updraft due to several atmospheric factors.
In Hungary, 80 percent of tomatoes are grown in the central and southern lowlands.
In the period under study, just 2 percent of the 1622 hectares of tomatoes planted were affected by hail.
The Tiszakécske district fared worst, with 12 percent hail damage.
In 2021, almost 3 percent of the planted peppers were affected by hail damage.
The total area sown with peppers and sweet peppers was 2,937 hectares.
13 districts reported damage out of 96 districts.
The district of Birbator was the most affected, with 45% of the area sown damaged.
As in the case of tomatoes, there was also a rainstorm on a particular day, mostly in July.
The exception is the district of Nagykálló, where there were two days with hail causing damage.
75% of onions are also grown in the southern part of the Great Plain.
Onions were grown on 2446 hectares, including not only red onions but also purple onions, garlic, chives and spring onions.
2.62% of the arable land was affected by ice damage, mainly in the Mako district.
25 June.
4.57 percent of the 834.53 hectares planted with onions were damaged.
In the district of Békéscsaba, 13.77% of 37.75 hectares of onions were damaged by ice.
25 June.
and 9 July.
days of June and July, which caused the hail.

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