Egg prices, chickens, and the commodity markets: Food sits on a global bartering table and the World is hungry.

Kathy LaFollett
4 min readMar 15
A chick with one foot on an unhatched egg. What came first, the chicken or the egg? The commodity markets only see layers and broilers.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? The commodity markets only see layers and broilers.

The commodity markets and the USDA Earnings Reports are a thing of cold hard math. Take the time to read through any report on any commodity from sugar to oranges, beef to eggs. You’ll soon learn all food sits on a global bartering table. And the world is hungry.