That’s one of the consequences of the worst wheat harvest in 35 years, said Andrew Joret, the chairman of the British Egg Industry Council. Wheat, he estimated, made up to 60% of the feed in egg production.
In an exclusive podcast for FoodManufacture.co.uk, he also said the poor harvest, which was mirrored in much of Europe and the US, would also drive up prices of meat and poultry, as well as bread.
Passionate defence
Despite the predicted rise in cost of eggs and supply problems experienced by manufacturers earlier this year after the EU banned member states from exporting eggs produced by battery hens, he launched a passionate defence of the use of egg by the food manufacturing industry.
