True, people in Quebec don't ship this way neither - but it didn't show an increase in local revenue.
People will only pay so much for hatching eggs, heck, even eating eggs.
Bottom line is, my wife and I are slowly cutting down our flock size as it's not cost justifiable.
People will pay $7 for a latte, but bock at paying that for extra large farm eggs. (currently we are only charging $6 for our eating eggs - and we lost customers when we raised it from $5 - next year, we are raising to $7 as that seems to be the going rate around here from other reputable farmers).
The feed store where we buy in bulk, told us they get the same amount from the source (Surecrop) today as they got from them 10 years ago, $1 a bag. Yet, that bag of feed which was $12, 10 years ago, is now over $20. The farmers that sell the grain/feed - aren't making anymore neither. Distribution is who makes the money - I know, as I bought a ton of wheat directly from a farmer a little bit ago. He said they aren't making hardly anything more than what they sold a ton for several years ago.
Course, I don't have to prove food prices to the average consumer - you see the prices when you grocery shop.
For example, $9 for a jug of goats milk - but the goat farmer isn't getting anymore then when it was $6.