Analysis and measurement of forces affecting the price of eggs in New York

Practically every farmer in the United States produces eggs, but the largest proportion of eggs received at the consumers' markets come from the grain producing areas, particularly the area in which corn is the major commodity. In recent years commercial poultry plants specializing in the production of large quantities of eggs have sprung up around the large eastern cities of the United States. The Pacific Coast also has a region where production of eggs is done on a larger scale, primarily due to favorable weather conditions and other good physical factors exigent for egg production. The basic price level for eggs, as for most agricultural commodities is determined in the large consuming centers. The country price is the central market price less costs and profits of getting the product from the point of production to the market. influences are at work which tend to cause the variation of egg prices in the central market and in turn influences the country prices, which causes the producer to respond, according to changing central market conditions.