# Eggs and Maize

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/eggs-and-maize/

[Eggs](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/eggs/) (commodity) and [Maize](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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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