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Eggs and Energy in farming

Their prices have moved together.

Eggs (commodity) and Energy in farming (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: energy cost

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Power and fuel for sheds, egg grading and transport are farm costs. The diesel proxy shows almost no link with the egg index: monthly moves correlate at 0.07 and yearly moves at 0.12.

  • 0.07 monthly change correlation
  • 0.12 12-month change correlation
  • 0.52 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.