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<\/a>[pho\u00adto \u2014 4H<\/span> Ontario]<\/p><\/div>I worked on a cou\u00adple of chick\u00aden farms when I was a teenag\u00ader, so I\u2019ve always kept an eye on the busi\u00adness. Egg prices have gone up some\u00adwhat in Cana\u00adda, but not even close to the price ris\u00ades in the U.S. over the same peri\u00adod. They are 16.5% high\u00ader now than they were one year ago \u2014 and there is no short\u00adage of them. Canada\u2019s eggs are most\u00adly pro\u00adduced by fam\u00adi\u00adly oper\u00ada\u00adtions, while the U.S. is dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by large cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions. The aver\u00adage egg farm in Cana\u00adda has about 25,000 lay\u00ading hens, while the aver\u00adage \u201cfarm\u201d in the U.S. has about two mil\u00adlion. In Cana\u00adda, avian flu has affect\u00aded %6 of pro\u00adduc\u00adtion, which is less than half of the dis\u00adease rate in the U.S., most\u00adly because of the absence of giant cor\u00adpo\u00adrate fac\u00adto\u00adry \u201cfarms.\u201d Amer\u00adi\u00adcans pay an arm and a leg for an egg. Cal-Maine Foods is the largest pro\u00adduc\u00ader and dis\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtor of shell eggs in the U.S., with a total flock of about 42 mil\u00adlion lay\u00aders. It is trad\u00aded on the Nas\u00addaq, and has seen its share price soar %45 over the past year. As a rule, things tend to cost more in Cana\u00adda than in the U.S., because the coun\u00adtry is huge and thin\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, with greater ship\u00adping dis\u00adtances and high\u00ader costs, so the fact that we aren\u2019t suf\u00adfer\u00ading short\u00adages or ridicu\u00adlous price hikes looks to me to have a dif\u00adfer\u00adent expla\u00adna\u00adtion. I see it as a dif\u00adfer\u00adence between unchecked cor\u00adpo\u00adrate greed and inef\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy in the U.S, com\u00adpared to a pro\u00adduc\u00ader-to-cus\u00adtomer ori\u00adent\u00aded mar\u00adket here. The U.S. agri\u00adcul\u00adtur\u00adal sys\u00adtem now much more close\u00adly resem\u00adbles the col\u00adlec\u00adtivist sys\u00adtem of the old Sovi\u00adet Union than it does any\u00adthing like a \u201cfree mar\u00adket.\u2019 The real eco\u00adnom\u00adic sys\u00adtem that dom\u00adi\u00adnates the U.S, is best described as \u201cCor\u00adpo\u00adrate Com\u00admu\u00adnism.\u201d With Trump in the White House, you can expect it to go Full Stalin.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I worked on a cou\u00adple of chick\u00aden farms when I was a teenag\u00ader, so I\u2019ve always kept an eye on the busi\u00adness. Egg prices have gone up some\u00adwhat in Cana\u00adda, but not even close to the price ris\u00ades in the U.S. \u2026<\/p>\n