Egg price increase
Sir,—Now the price freeze has ended, the New Zealand Poultry Board has increased the price of eggs. Its justification is that the increase will cover increased feeding costs for the growers. A colleague in the industry informs me that no effort has been made to change the board’s policy of dumping excess production. If the industry was deregulated tomorrow egg producers would receive the same, if not greater income, and consumers would not have to shoulder this price increase. Organised marketing is a socialist’s dream and any egg producer with integrity should scrap the Poultry Board and go it alone, in the interests of giving the consumer a . better and more honest deal.—Yours, etc., R. L. JOHNSON. March 5, 1984.
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