Eggs, poultry and pork may cost more
PA Hamilton The Trade and Industry Department expects egg, poultry and pork prices to rise.
The department says a one-third increase in meat and bone meal prices which came after the lifting of the price freeze should result in changes though the department will not predict by how much.
“We don’t really know what the end effect will be,” the department’s Commerce Division (agricultural section) executive officer, Mr Greg Hedges, said yesterday.
“It depends on supplies held, contracts with suppliers of meal, efficiencies achieved in production during the freeze, market com-
petition, and resistance to cost increases,” he said. However, he said that as meat and bone meal was only part of total production costs, rises should be much smaller than a third.
According to a New Zealand Egg Marketing Board spokesman, meat and bone meal price increases and also grain price increases could begin to affect production costs about midApril.
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