Eggs are getting pricier ahead of the holiday baking season

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season.

But prices are still far from the recent peak they reached almost two years ago. And the American Egg Board, a trade group, says egg shortages at grocery stores have been isolated and temporary so far.

“Those are being rapidly corrected, sometimes within a day,” said Emily Metz, the Egg Board’s president and chief executive officer.

The average price for a dozen eggs in U.S. cities was $3.37 in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down slightly from September, and down significantly from January 2023, when the average price soared to $4.82. But it was up 63% from October 2023, when a dozen eggs cost an average of $2.07.

https://apnews.com/article/eggs-prices-bird-flu-7f2063d64dd80ec4ed0aa74e562f19d7

[kimbutgar]

1. And why during the campaign no one stressed in the media or the Harris campaign that the rise was due to the bird flu ?

I want to scream when I hear the higher price of eggs made people vote for the orange Hitler. When the Avian bird flu was running rampant the last 6 months.

[Trekologer]

18. The unwillingness of the administration to try to get in front of these things is why Biden's approval never recovered

They should have been doing daily briefings by the USDA on the how bird flu was impacting farms, supply, etc.

[BOSSHOG]

2. We are fortunate

To have many neighbors in the county who have chickens and sell eggs, bring ‘em right to our house, very cheap. And my wife says they taste better than store bought. I have no complaint with the price of groceries for us. We donate to the food pantry in town. Right now we are fine and dandy financially. And we just imagine what the higher prices are doing to those who can’t afford to shop in a grocery store, period.

[paleotn]

12. They're way better than store bought.

Yokes are plumper and a bit orange, particularly those laid in warm months, since home chickens eat what chickens are supposed to eat. Anything they can get their beaks on. Various seeds, insects and fresh grass. My neighbor watched her hens track down and kill a mouse last summer, then played keep away for half an hour. Velociraptors! I haven't had an industrial, store bought egg in years.

[BOSSHOG]

15. And getting those home grown eggs

Gives my wife a chance to get out and about. A half hour visiting with folks in a small town is newsier than getting a daily paper. I do enjoy the local eggs better than store bought. And we have access to home grown beef. A local liquor store sells frozen steaks and roasts from a ranch 15 miles south. One stop shopping.

Velociraptors. Thanks for the chuckle.

[paleotn]

17. They're killers, man, I'm telling ya!

Some years ago my wife got Mr. Cheap to forgo the Shaw's Thanksgiving loss leader and get a local turkey from a farm a couple towns over. Pricy but well worth it. And worth the "quality v price" sermon she's good at giving me.

[Think. Again.]

3. Are they still pushing that egg B.S.????

They're eggs. The price difference is a couple of bucks.

How did this become a thing and why are they still making it a thing??????????

[paleotn]

13. Amurkins have to have something....anything!....to whine about.

We're the softest, weakest people on the planet.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Flour and sugar cannot be far behind.

[magicarpet]

5. 2nd round of bird flu.....

They are culling the hen egg laying stock to beat back the bird flu. They thought they were making headway but round #2 snuck up on them. Necessitating another massive culling of infected laying hens. Both food stock birds (chickens and turkeys) plus wild birds are susceptable to this bird flu strain. A few cases crossed over to humans where farm workers came down sick with this.

[magicarpet]

8. Link to more info on the bird flu jacking egg prices higher.

Egg prices are going even higher. This time it’s avian flu and the holidays
By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN
Published 11:00

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/business/avian-flu-holidays-egg-prices/index.html

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Two years of bird flu causing egg prices to soar again for the holidays.

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[Otto_Harper]

6. Don't care. Hope they go to a million dollars a dozen.

Elect a clown and get a circus.

[SheltieLover]

7. $3/doz. today at Aldi in TN

One woman bought like 14 dozen. I asked her wth she was doing with so many eggs and she said "shhhhhh large family." Makes me wonder what she might know that I don't...

[magicarpet]

9. Burd flu is causing an egg shortage.

Like the Covid toilet paper rush to strip the shelves bare. People are hoarding eggs now.

See comment #8 - two above yours - for details as to why egg prices are up, why the shelves are bare, and why some people are hoarding eggs.

[SheltieLover]

10. TY for sharing.

I'm just not keeping up on the news for health reasons.

[tapper]

11. Local coop store

If you don’t have access to a country friend with eggs, might check for an organic/cooperative type store. I was at ours earlier, and while they had gaps in the eggs area, the “local” producers (‘local’ being defined as 150 miles or less) were represented. Only one price caught attention, $3.79 dozen for eggs from free-roaming hens, which was certainly less than some of the prices I noted earlier at Dillons. If you can, I’d look for a source of eggs from a fairly local, small farm. Depending on their setup, I suspect they should be less vulnerable to the bird flu , and fresher and better eggs.

[paleotn]

14. Exactly.

We're lucky that several of our neighbors raise laying hens. We've been buying eggs from the same tiny producers for years. $4 per dozen and well worth it.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. I Just Checked

Eggs are $2.16 per dozen at Walmart. For $6.36, we could buy 3 dozen.
That doesn't seem that high to me.

[Hekate]

19. In totally unrelated news: Bird Flu has appeared in a raw milk dairy in Fresno, CA

I’m sure bird flu in chickens is unrelated to the price of eggs, as it will be to the price of milk

[ventuckian]

20. Grocery worker

Work for a union chain northwest of LA. Prices remain about the same, dozen goes for $3.99. However, availabilty is a challenge for organic eggs and has been for awhile. Recently, my most expensive eggs, Vital Farms has been getting shorted. Own brand regular eggs have been always available for now. Also, other then orange juice all my organic milk/half and half products has been shorted in the last couple of weeks.

[Jack Valentino]

21. Well.... I just don't eat that many eggs, even before the price spikes....

Takes me a couple months to work through a dozen,
unless I want to make egg salad sandwiches,
which I had a recent craving for, but appear to have worked through it.


But TRUMP was elected!!
WHY AREN'T THE PRICES LOWER, DON-OLD ??????


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