How can there be a turkey shortage? Last I checked, Congress is still in session.

Even if current stocks are adequate, a "shortage" can be created by increased demand, sparked by consumers "stocking up" in anticipation of reduced supply and/or higher prices in the future. For example, I usually top off my tank as soon as I see wholesale gasoline prices jump, since I anticipate that retail prices will soon follow.

Not necessarily altruism, it also helps protect the store's customer base. If customers can't buy eggs there, they would go to a competitor for eggs and might never return!

Yes, two to five years from now when the supplies in storage run out, assuming no repopulation of the birds because they completely died out.

The question to ask is what ex-Cisco systems founder turned turkey farmer (the largest farmer in the US) had the most to loose and who she made large political donations to. Remember this started with turkeys not chickens. Not the turkeys in DC.

I only know a little bit about the turkey situation. CDC and APHIS don't know how the birds got it, but it was suspected maybe wild birds migrating carried it. They don't even know for sure how it's transmitted. When 1 bird in the barn gets it, they all have to be put down. Also, the farmers don't get their insurance payout if they only take out the sick ones and not the entire barn.

Millions of chickens and turkeys were put down because of the bird flu. Fewer birds, fewer omelets or turkey sandwiches.

Rationing: A technique to raise the price of some item and thereby increase profits.

How can there be a shortage of eggs from an event that happened two months ago when the eggs in the stores have been in cold storage for a minimum of two years. Yes, this is true. Eggs keep for a very long time and are one of the items on the commodities market, along with pork bellies, ham, grain, corn, ........and the list goes on. Big investors and companies started buying and then selling when "Profits were higher" a long time ago. Simple economics, eggs from two or three years ago are sold at a higher price today. If you doubt this look up the Mill-spec on cold storing eggs. Three years for cold, 7 years for frozen. If you want "fresh eggs" by a chicken.

HEB is smart. HEB is not addressing national egg shortage but is more prudently addressing customer base. Store nearby "discounts" eggs regularly at 4 cartons for $5, limit 4 per purchase episode (which means once through the cash register line). Member-type chain store sells eggs in bulk and IS geared up to serve small restaurants. Without government interdiction, the normal feast-or-famine cycles are narrowed by progress in cultivation and supply-demand and the grocers and consumers have become creative in adapting. But the government as we have know it has always [adversely] influenced the producer and the consumer and induced starvation.

Back when I lived in Gillette, Wyoming, we had a smoked Hutterite turkey from their colony just over the border in Montana. Man, that was one of the best turkeys we ever had!

LOL!

I am always suspicious, when it involves the food supply. Exactly how did the avian flu get in the area> Remember, Agenda 21 wants control of what we eat as well. O has been pushing get your food withing 100 miles of your home - yeah, get veggies in the Midwest in the dead of winter? I always remember the story of how Khrushchev starved villages who opposed his rise, for his own gain.

OK. Thanks. I did not know about the Hutterites. (I was wondering if "Hutterite turkey" was something like "Welsh rabbit".

Jan

We have a Hutterite Colony up here and they raise turkeys, among other things. They are pricey compared to Butterballs, but they are local grown.
http://www.hutterites.org/ I have difficulty telling the difference, by dress, between the Hutterites and the Mennonites. The Amish are pretty easy to pick out though.

It was, but I think they buy in cases or truck loads, not cartons, lol.

Huterite? Please explain...

Jan

Anyone who only shops once a month.

Jan

Yeah, I'm a divorced dude who does not make cakes or cookies. Too much trouble. My doctor would not like it anyway.
I make bacon and egg and sausage and egg sandwiches--stuff like that.
Thought my Duggar crack funny, though.

They are all in big barns. If one gets sick they are all likely to get sick.

I think I'll plan on a Huterite turkey this year.

most of this is inflation. They are trying to give it another cause in my estimation

interesting question. I wonder that too

haha

You mean these things I bought 23 years ago?

It all seems like some sort of sick yolk.

Part of this came from the way we raise chickens and turkeys in this country. I wonder: will cage-free eggs suddenly be the only eggs available?