After soaring to record-high costs over the winter, egg prices declined at the highest rate in 36 years in March, according to Consumer Price Index data released by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDA) on April 12. Prices for eggs decreased by 11 percent for the month along with drops in prices for some meat,…

Egg prices have seen a steady increase over the past few years but price spikes have never been this extraordinary until recently. One Twitter user posted that cartons of 18 eggs (not organic or pasture-raised) cost $10 and have anti-theft alarms attached to them. While inflation and supply chain issues play a role in this, the…

That omelet has become expensive. Buying anything with eggs in it is a considerable monetary investment. So egg prices have been increasing, but chicken prices have remained the same or, in some areas, are decreasing. Eggs, which have always been a low-cost way to eat protein, are expensive. But why are they so pricey, and…

As the price of eggs continues to rise, so does the cost of other foods that contain eggs as an ingredient. As previously reported by The Epoch Times, egg prices have been on the rise since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as the avian flu or bird flu, which hit the…

With the price of a dozen eggs climbing to never before seen heights, one agriculture watchdog group and at least one U.S. senator are crying “fowl” about price gouging, but an agricultural expert says the reasons are much less nefarious. Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson has been in the egg business for most of…

News Analysis If there’s a poster child for last year’s historic inflation, it ought to be an egg. The valuable source of nutrients has never been pricier. In December, a dozen eggs cost $4.25 on average, up from less than $1.80 a year prior, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The good news is,…

Customers have visited Poul’s Bakery in Costa Mesa, California, for 68 years to buy specialty Danish cakes, cannolis, and angel cookies made from scratch. However, eggs, which are indispensable for the patisserie’s traditional recipes, reached nearly $7 a dozen last week in California. “We still have to use eggs,” owner Ayliz Guclu told The Epoch…

Commentary This article was originally published in American Thinker Consumers can take a lot, but when you start raising prices on staples like eggs and milk, a definite din begins to rise from the streets. I knew something was up during a pre-Christmas trip to Costco, where a frenzied mob of shoppers were exasperated after being…

In the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, when quarantines and lockdowns forced people to stay home and cope with food shortages, backyard chickens gained widespread popularity. Now in 2022, supply chain issues are being exacerbated by the destruction of an alarming number of food processing plants as well as the latest strain of avian…