Egg farmers downbeat despite sunny outlook

Feed price inflation, the threat of disease and retailer pressure all served to place egg producers as least optimistic about the future when compared with broiler and pig farmers. In a confidence survey taken ahead of the British Pig & Poultry Fair, just 56% of egg farmers said they were either fairly or very positive about their business prospects, compared with 68% of pig and 83% of broiler producers respectively. But the forum outlook session that was informed by that survey cast a more