Market firms despite oversupply

Despite pressure from rising production, the UK egg market has gained a firmer tone during the past month. Both colony and free-range prices have improved at wholesale level, with the colony sector gaining a touch more. At the Central Egg Agency, headline prices for Large Colony gained 8p/doz to reach their highest level since April, while Large Free-Range were up 5p/doz. For size Medium, which had been depressed by an influx of large numbers of smaller eggs from new flocks, the recovery was m