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Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

I would, if I lived in the country.

Miche

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If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Miche wrote:

In article ,
Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

I would, if I lived in the country.

Miche

--

So relocate??? ;-)

K.


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"Miche" wrote in message
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: In article ,
: AzuReBlue wrote:
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: In article ,
kilikini1
: @NOSPAMhotmail.com says...
: Hey, don't feel bad. Where I live a dozen large eggs is
$2.68. Butter is
: standard at $4.38 a pound and a gallon of milk is $6.58.
:
: Be HAPPY! :P
:
: Kilikini
:
: snip
:
: O...M...G!!! I'm soooo glad I don't have to pay prices like
that! I just
: went to the store today and milk (whole) is $2.37 gal., eggs
are $1.19
: for 1 1/2 doz., and butter is IIRC $2.79 lb here in Michigan.
:
: In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen,
milk is
: $1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is
$2.20 per
: pound.
:
: Miche
:
:===========

So in other words Miche, you're telling us that it costs a pretty
penny to live in beautiful paradise!! Wow, I'm really amazed at
how expensive the milk is!!

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Cyndi
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Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In article ,
AzuReBlue wrote:

In article , kilikini1
@NOSPAMhotmail.com says...
Hey, don't feel bad. Where I live a dozen large eggs is $2.68. Butter is
standard at $4.38 a pound and a gallon of milk is $6.58.

Be HAPPY! :P

Kilikini

snip

O...M...G!!! I'm soooo glad I don't have to pay prices like that! I just
went to the store today and milk (whole) is $2.37 gal., eggs are $1.19
for 1 1/2 doz., and butter is IIRC $2.79 lb here in Michigan.

In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Miche


Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

K.


And chicken feed and cattle fodder and build a barn.

It is not as easy as it sounds.

Bert

In article ,
wrote:

Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:
In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Miche


Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

And chicken feed and cattle fodder and build a barn.

It is not as easy as it sounds.

There are very few barns in New Zealand (where I live). No need.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

In article xWJxb.336543$Tr4.1011608@attbi_s03,
"Rick & Cyndi" wrote:

"Miche" wrote in message
...
: In article ,
: AzuReBlue wrote:
:
: In article ,
kilikini1
: @NOSPAMhotmail.com says...
: Hey, don't feel bad. Where I live a dozen large eggs is
$2.68. Butter is
: standard at $4.38 a pound and a gallon of milk is $6.58.
:
: Be HAPPY! :P
:
: Kilikini
:
: snip
:
: O...M...G!!! I'm soooo glad I don't have to pay prices like
that! I just
: went to the store today and milk (whole) is $2.37 gal., eggs
are $1.19
: for 1 1/2 doz., and butter is IIRC $2.79 lb here in Michigan.
:
: In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen,
milk is
: $1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is
$2.20 per
: pound.

So in other words Miche, you're telling us that it costs a pretty
penny to live in beautiful paradise!!

Pretty much. I'm still astounded by what people pay in Hawaii, but then
consider the cost of freight.

Wow, I'm really amazed at
how expensive the milk is!!

New Zealand is a dairying nation. One of the biggest dairy companies in
the world is based here. We pay the same prices for milk as the export
market does.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

In article ,
Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In article ,
Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

I would, if I lived in the country.

So relocate??? ;-)

Not a hope.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Katra wrote in message ...
"S.Dunlap" wrote:

Nancy Young wrote in message ...
LenS wrote:

Does anyone know the reason?

Holidays. Expect the price of butter to skyrocket, too.

nancy

Holidays may not necessarily be the answer. Price of eggs (and
chicken) has gone up here in Honduras also...and there is no tradition
of holiday bake-a-thons like in the US. Perhaps Cargill, ADM, and all
the other agribusinesses involved with feed production have increased
their prices.

Sandi


If the price of gas goes up (which it has yet again) then so does the
price of feed since it has to be trucked. The eggs, in turn, also have
to be trucked.

The price of tomatoes has also doubled, and there are no more imports in
the store than there was when they were "in season".

Just my guess. :-)

K.


ADM has a history of price fixing to keep feed prices artificially
high. They've been busted by the feds and fined plus some execs had to
go do time at "Club Fed" penitentiary. Cargill controls the majority
of producsers in both the chicken insustry and the poultry/livestock
feed industry in Honduras.

BTW, check out the websites for Cargill and ADM to see how they are
vertically integrated and control everything from the financial
institutions that loan money to farmers on up to grain storage,
transportation, and production facilities. They even own utilities in
some areas. It's rather enlightening.

Sandi

Miche wrote:

In article ,
Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In article ,
Katra wrote:

Miche wrote:

In my part of New Zealand eggs are around $2.30 or so a dozen, milk is
$1.65 per litre (1 US gallon is around 4.5 litres), butter is $2.20 per
pound.

Buy some chickens.... and a cow. ;-)

I would, if I lived in the country.

So relocate??? ;-)

Not a hope.

Miche

--

There used to be a woman on one of the poultry e-mail lists that had a
couple of pet hens in a cage in her apartment! :-) No rooster to crow so
they did not bug the neighbors, and she got enough eggs from them for
her own use...

They can be pretty tame if you raise them from chicks.

K.

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all owned by cats" -- Asimov

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"S.Dunlap" wrote:

Katra wrote in message ...
"S.Dunlap" wrote:

Nancy Young wrote in message ...
LenS wrote:

Does anyone know the reason?

Holidays. Expect the price of butter to skyrocket, too.

nancy

Holidays may not necessarily be the answer. Price of eggs (and
chicken) has gone up here in Honduras also...and there is no tradition
of holiday bake-a-thons like in the US. Perhaps Cargill, ADM, and all
the other agribusinesses involved with feed production have increased
their prices.

Sandi


If the price of gas goes up (which it has yet again) then so does the
price of feed since it has to be trucked. The eggs, in turn, also have
to be trucked.

The price of tomatoes has also doubled, and there are no more imports in
the store than there was when they were "in season".

Just my guess. :-)

K.

ADM has a history of price fixing to keep feed prices artificially
high. They've been busted by the feds and fined plus some execs had to
go do time at "Club Fed" penitentiary. Cargill controls the majority
of producsers in both the chicken insustry and the poultry/livestock
feed industry in Honduras.

BTW, check out the websites for Cargill and ADM to see how they are
vertically integrated and control everything from the financial
institutions that loan money to farmers on up to grain storage,
transportation, and production facilities. They even own utilities in
some areas. It's rather enlightening.

Sandi


Scary too...

Thanks!
K.


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(S.Dunlap) wrote in
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ADM has a history of price fixing to keep feed prices artificially
high. They've been busted by the feds and fined plus some execs had to
go do time at "Club Fed" penitentiary. Cargill controls the majority
of producsers in both the chicken insustry and the poultry/livestock
feed industry in Honduras.

BTW, check out the websites for Cargill and ADM to see how they are
vertically integrated and control everything from the financial
institutions that loan money to farmers on up to grain storage,
transportation, and production facilities. They even own utilities in
some areas. It's rather enlightening.

Bitching against capitalist practice and "savwahr fairy" in *this*
newsgroup? How refreshing and certainly a change from the usual pro
economic abuse twaddle :-)

Capitalists, by virtue of the fact that they erroneously believe they
contribute more to society than anyone else, will always believe they are
above the laws of the land or, if properly motivated, will arrange for
the laws to protect their right to abuse workers and markets. Either
way, they get rich and you make them so at your own expense.

Pan Ohco the Centralist will soon begin to see my point ;-)

(j.j.) wrote in news:bq3cls$40fu_008
@news.zipcon.net:

Hark! I heard say:
LenS wrote:

Does anyone know the reason?

Holidays. Expect the price of butter to skyrocket, too.

Yup -- my stupidmarket had 1 lb. for $2.00 today, so I stocked
up...

In Canada, socialist haven and Wolf-reputed "one-horse" country, we have
marketing boards whose job it is to smooth out the bumps in the market
caused by gluts and scarcity based on reasonable fluctuations. This must
be our mistake, eh? :-

Michel Boucher wrote:

(j.j.) wrote in news:bq3cls$40fu_008
@news.zipcon.net:

Hark! I heard say:
LenS wrote:

Does anyone know the reason?

Holidays. Expect the price of butter to skyrocket, too.

Yup -- my stupidmarket had 1 lb. for $2.00 today, so I stocked
up...

In Canada, socialist haven and Wolf-reputed "one-horse" country, we have
marketing boards whose job it is to smooth out the bumps in the market
caused by gluts and scarcity based on reasonable fluctuations. This must
be our mistake, eh? :-

Yeah, I'd rather get super cheap eggs all year and deal with the
holiday bump.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote in
:

Yeah, I'd rather get super cheap eggs all year and deal with the
holiday bump.

You gets what you pays for. Super-cheap eggs...yum :-\

So, glut is fine with you as long as it results in a saving over the real
price of egg production? You are prepared to accept falsified seasonal
shortages for the purpose of generating greater wealth for the middle-man
in exchange for a product that may not be exportable because of its low
production cost and hence questionable quality? Be my guest :-)

Michel Boucher wrote:

Nancy Young wrote in

Yeah, I'd rather get super cheap eggs all year and deal with the
holiday bump.

You gets what you pays for. Super-cheap eggs...yum :-\

Eggs are a loss leader. Has nothing to do with the quality.

So, glut is fine with you as long as it results in a saving over the real
price of egg production? You are prepared to accept falsified seasonal
shortages

I don't have any seasonal shortage. Plenty of eggs in the store,
and on sale, too.

for the purpose of generating greater wealth for the middle-man
in exchange for a product that may not be exportable because of its low
production cost and hence questionable quality? Be my guest :-)

I don't think I would enjoy that, but thanks. And if someone is
making money along the line, hey ... it's not as if there are egg
farms around the corner from me, someone's being paid to fill a
niche.

nancy