Ontario egg farmers are lowering prices, but you won’t pay much less at the supermarket — here’s why

The good news is Egg Farmers of Ontario, the marketing board that sets the prices for eggs in the province at the producer level, recently decreed that prices are coming down after huge hikes over the past year. (Burnbrae will lower prices by 14 cents at the end of January to reflect the Egg Farmers of Ontario market price, before raising them again mid-March.) “This price (increase) covers costs to our business including supply chain costs, labour, packaging, fuel, heat and power, repairs and maintenance, administrative costs, etc. Some retailers, who have long borne the burnt of consumer ire over rising food costs, say they are angry and confused. “When farm-gate prices drop and retail prices increase you have to wonder what’s going on there,” Charlebois said.