CAN BELIZE EGG AND POULTRY PRODUCERS UNDERSELL YUCATAN PRODUCERS?

 CAN BELIZE POULTRY AND EGG COOPERATIVES UNDERSELL YUCATAN PRODUCERS?

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ek Tun <info@ektunbelize.com> wrote:
Feed and gas keep going up here, too... governments and wall street are driving everybody out of business except the huge conglomerates.  I will probably go the way of Manolo and Alvaro, and give up and try to cut my losses.... it was a nice hobby for a while.


At 07:18 AM 8/28/2012 -0600, you wrote:
“According to the Southeast Poultry Association, there is no shortage of chicken or eggs in Yucatan. In fact, each week, Yucatan produces 1.5 million broiler chickens and 23.4 million eggs. This has led some to accuse producers of arbitrarily raising prices because of the egg shortage in Jalisco. Yucatan’s producers say that the shortage in Jalisco has nothing to do with the reason their egg prices have to rise. The problem is that feed and gasoline are going up at an ever-increasing rate. Feed prices jumped 40% just in the month of July. Talk of lifting tariffs on imported eggs is frightening to them because other nations, with producers shored up by farm subsidies, will dump eggs into the Mexican market. Yucatan’s farmers cannot bring their prices down and have no subsidies. If they are undersold, they will simply go out of business and yet another Mexican agricultural industry will fall victim to unfair international trade practices. So far, it is expected that the price of eggs will rise to approximately $28 pesos per kilo. Our thoughts are with Yucatan’s poultry and egg producers as they attempt to weather this storm.”

Source: Yucatan Living Newsletter