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SWEDEN

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CYPRUS

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GERMANY

CZECH REPUBLIC
GREECE

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LITHUANIA

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LUXEMBOURG

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PORTUGAL

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ROMANIA

UNITED KINGDOM

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CZECH REPUBLIC

GREECE

MALTA

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ESTONIA
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ITALY

BELGIUM

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DENMARK

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MALTA

IRELAND

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ESTONIA

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IRELAND

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BULGARIA

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FINLAND

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LATVIA

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CROATIA
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LITHUANIA

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POLAND
SWEDEN

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FRANCE

LATVIA

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SPAIN

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FINLAND

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ITALY

NETHERLANDS

SLOVENIA

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DENMARK

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ESTONIA

Favorable economic conditions will be tempered by avian inﬂuenza

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FRANCE
concerns, trade
changes and GREECE
demand shifts.

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Why European
egg production
POLAND PORTUGAL
ROMANIA SLOVAKIA
SPAIN
KINGDOM
AUSTRIA BELGIUM
may SWEDEN
be ﬂatUNITED
in 2018

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SLOVENIA

FINLAND

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HUNGARY

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IRELAND

MARK CLEMENTS

The outlook for the European egg industry is
broadly flat this year, with production forecast to
increase by a mere 0.2 percent to 7.3 million tons,
according to the European Commission.
European egg producers entered 2018 buoyed
by a favorable macro-economic outlook and high

prices. Although off their 2017 high, egg prices
at the end of the year were 47 percent higher than
12 months previously. But high prices are unlikely to be sustained throughout the remainder
of the year.
Price increases during the second half of 2017
were driven by difficulties in the
supply chain at the very time that
European Union's five largest egg-producing
European demand for eggs was
member states 2016-17
increasing and, by the end of the
Member
% change
state
2016
2017*
2018**
'17 vs. '18
year, pricing had started to decline
toward more normal levels.
France
956,000
995,000
1,005,000
1.0
Upward price pressure started
Germany
880,000
897,000
910,000
1.5
in late July, when news of eggs
Italy
840,000
832,000
852,000
2.4
contaminated with fipronil resulted
Spain
814,000
779,000
842,000
in significant production decreases
8.1
in Belgium and, more significantly,
UK
780,000
800,200
816,200
2.0
in the Netherlands, by far and away
* estimate
** forecast
Source: European Commission
the largest supplier of eggs to other
European Union Member States.
Across four of the EU's ﬁve largest egg-producing member states, growth is
Concerns over fipronil may have
forecast to be above the bloc's average, particularly welcome for Italy and
dented consumer confidence in the
Spain, where output in 2017 is thought to have contracted. WATT Global Media
www.WATTAgNet.com ❙ March 2018

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