Egg prices have gone up because of a recent outbreak of avian influenza, also known as “bird flu.” Last year, the Bird Flu mostly went away, but there have been several stories recently of it being found in dairy animals. The bird flu is usually found in birds and can be very dangerous and even kill them.
A professor and food economist at Texas A&M University named David Anderson said, “The big rise in egg prices is because highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is hitting egg farms, killing chickens and cutting egg production.”
Because of this flu, more than 14 million egg-laying chickens died in just two months, and more than 8 million birds are still sick.
Because so many people got sick, Cal-Maine Foods, the biggest chicken egg company in the country, had to shut down because of an outbreak of Bird Flu.
A senior analyst at the agribusiness bank Rabobank named Nan-Dirk Mulder said, “Many countries and regions around the world, such as the U.S., EU, Russia, South Africa, India, and Nigeria, are facing historically high prices.”
In the United States, a dozen Grade A eggs now cost almost $2.50, which is more than 10% more than it did a year ago. The prices of eggs went up more than twenty percent in Japan, which eats a lot of them.
A lot of people have looked into how to cook or deal with the more expensive eggs. Some people even told X that they were going to buy a lot of chicken eggs now, before the prices go up even more.
A lot of people want eggs as a replacement or filler because meat prices have gone up, experts say. This has caused egg prices to go up even more.
