Eggs and Maize

Their prices have moved together.

Eggs (commodity) and Maize (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: feed cost

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Maize is the main energy feed for laying hens, so it sets much of the cost of an egg. The index barely follows it: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.04 and yearly moves at 0.17, as bird flu swamps feed costs.

• -0.04 monthly change correlation
• 0.17 12-month change correlation
• 0.56 fitted elasticity

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