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Eggs US – Price – Chart

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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[] No.42952829[source]
I found this article today in the CBC about why Canada's egg prices have remained reasonable while the neighbouring US has gone crazy interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/egg-prices-avian-flu-canada-u...

TLDR: 1) we still have a bird flu problem, but have smaller flocks in the farms, so the impact of having to do a cull is far far less and

2) we have supply-management for poultry and eggs and dairy (basically a form of central economic planning around a quota system) ... which in good times is a rip-off for consumers [and some farmers] but in bad times... turns out to provide some value (which is why it was rolled out in the first place)