Why egg prices are soaring in the U.S. 

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it is strange that commodities, such as eggs had have such inflated prices. Teaching, a profession that is also high in demand and where there is a shortage, has not seen salaries go up substantially.

Yeah… But what prices soared first? The egg prices or the chicken prices?!

Politicians you had one job to do and you have failed miserably.

Meanwhile, corporate profits at an all time high.

Our neighbors hobby farm has several chickens. Been getting free eggs for years and they always try to give us more than I like. Wife bakes cookies and muffins and returns the favor.

When companies decide to make more $, they create artificial shortages.

Didn't realize how much I take eggs for granted until my Costco was completely out. Grocery store had some put I had to pay a pretty penny. Hope that terrible bird flu gets under control soon :(

Definitely. I used to pay around 6 dollars for a 60 count box and it's now 23 dollars. I'm in Michigan

Never thought I'd pay 10 to 15 dollars for 1 dozen store brand eggs.

"Many of us buy eggs to cook with them." I don't know about you but I buy eggs to decorate with.

This will hasten our transition to crickets and meal worms.

Nope it's price gouging. Major egg suppliers like Cal-maine have net profit increases that are through the roof.

Pack chickens into a barn in inhumane conditions and then act surprised when they get sick and die, or have to be put down. Support farmers who raise free range chickens.

I watched a RU-vidr's video 6 - 8 months ago about what they were experiencing with their chicken farm. The concern at the time was the drought and how that impacted the cost of feed. They said that they had no choice but to sell off the majority of their stock or suffer a complete loss because they could not stay a float by continuing to pay the cost of feed. They also predicted the impact from many chicken farmers being in the same circumstances could take eggs to an eye popping $12.00 a dozen. I guess chicken feed ain't chicken feed anymore.

The prices of all things except salary are soaring in America!

Apparently the prices are different for everyone. I see comments of people still paying under $3 a dozen. I'm paying closer to $6 a dozen..

I have a flock of 40+ and run a small hobby/market farm here in NC. I just ordered 50 more chicks so by May I’ll be doubling my egg count. Supply and Demand has been killing me.

We have our own chickens and have had unusually low egg production this fall and winter. We switched feeds and started getting eggs again. Is there something going on with some of the mass-produced bigger brands of feed? Posted this on IG and YT and many small farms/homesteaders are experiencing the same thing. It's concerning.

sadly some people don't care .they are still buying .

"record profits"

Tijuana Mexico ( border town) 30 eggs for 4.50 that's why Americans are moving or go groceries shopping and getting gasoline, etc,south of the border.

Prices don't increase because of supply shortages. MIlton Freidman Prices only increase from money printing. I'll say it again THE PRICE OF EEGS DIDN"T GO UP BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE IN EGGS

When prices spike, even if the reason is removed, they never drop back to what they were. It becomes the new normal. They did it with bleach, baking soda, and they will target anything essential people can't live without, sugar, coffee, you name it.

I've definitely been buying a lot less eggs these days.

It's not inflation stores are hiking the prices up and the farmers wanted a cut of it and the big chain stores didn't want to give them a cut of it so farmers have stopped providing them with more eggs

Eggs are high but bullcrap clearly is still free.

Eggs were $3.39 a dozen at my local small town Kroger. That same dozen was under $2 a year ago. I thought that was bad enough. 😬 Their stock was also quite low, which I hadn't seen since the worst of Covid.

Ok people complain about $7 for a dozen eggs but don't think twice when they spend that much at Starbuck's MULTIPLE times a week for fancy coffee?

In the same store, chicken drumsticks were 99 cents a pound. Shouldn't the price go up on the chicken legs too?

Had to run to the store new year's day. 9.40 for 18 count cage free eggs

As they said - inflation is as transitory as avian flu --😂 so yes this increase is forever

Those prices will never come down... And when I say come down I mean go back to under 2 dollars per dozen... When it goes down it will be 5 or 6 dollars instead of 8 or 9 dollars... What the industry is seeing with shortage and inflation is that the consumers will complain but still will buy if not even more! 🙄😒🥺

Yes no one mentioned the fact that there were so many food manufacturing plants that mysteriously caught fire last year too.

I hate when a news report tells you nothing, but worse tells you lies.

I started purchasing meat and eggs from local farmers over a year ago. I advice everyone to research within your area and find people who own small farms and raise their own beef and poultry. It’s cheaper and healthier.

we just stopped eating them. don't feed the greed. have oatmeal, toast, bagel, fruit, juice, pancakes, waffles, veggies, and lots of sausage gravy.. yum🍍🍎🍑🍓🌽🍅🥑🍌🥐🥨🥞🥯🥒🥟🍠🥗🍕🌮🥧🫖🥤🧋🥢🍩🍪🥪🍏🥕🫒🫐🍋🥦🫑🌰🧇🫓🥖🥜🍄🥬🌶🥔🥥🥝🍒🍐🍉🍇🍈enjoy

This inspired me to rise my own chickens to lay eggs if egg prices are going up.

Greed

A year ago it was $9.60 for a 90 eggs case at Walmart in northern NJ..

Because they can. Why not ?

A friend of mine who has a farm in Virginia has added something new to her property. Chickens and a coop with nests for the eggs they lay for her consumption. I was wondering why she would do this, but seeing how much egg prices have risen, I now understand her reasoning for doing this.

We already know....price of animal feed all driven by incompetence and greed.

Everybody seems to forget that the real inflation started in August of 2019 with the China trade wars

The one thing we never run out of is excuses as to why prices of everything in this country are constantly increasing.

This woman just said that people that don't eat meat will substitute eggs for protein 🤦🏻‍♂️

It's cute that they are asking if it's a temporary thing because this has been happening for a year now.

Got my own backyard flocks few years ago for a hobby. Glad I did it. Now I have steady supply of eggs 😂

If you can move out of the city by yourself a house with land grow your food and get some chickens the eggs are healthier and a lot tastier

I'm allergic to high priced eggs. Not to low cost eggs though.

I’m in Vegas and our eggs are $9.99. The checker at the store said it is because of the flu and Also California has a Law that Chickens cannot be Raised in a Cage🫣

Not a word about millions of chickens dying from bird flu. Oh, wait they did talk about it.

It's less than a dollar for a dozen extra big eggs here in Russia... What's wrong with the US?

Sams was sold out of brown eggs. Really? Atl is 7.50

Saw a farmer saying they are not getting any if the money... Walmart is keeping it.

Bought a dozen cage-free eggs 2 days ago for $3.5 in NM...

I went to Costco yesterday and they were completely out of eggs

I’ve stopped buying eggs. When everybody else does the same, prices will come down.

Like prices aren’t already soaring enough as it is.

Time to buy a chicken 🐓

One store near me charges $7.99 for a dozen eggs. Another store has them at $2.99 for a dozen cage free eggs. They only allow you to buy one dozen. So I'm not saying what store it is. However, Anheuser-Busch is fermenting egg whites in tanks using the grain left over from brewing beer. It is the exact same DNA as chicken egg whites, but no animals are needed. It will be much better for the environment and there will be no possibility of disease. There are also people fermenting cow's milk this way. As a 50 year vegetarian, I will be very happy to buy the egg whites, milk, and cheese made in fermentation tanks because it takes a LOT less water and does not produce methane.

There is no why... there is nothing to warrant the prices other than GREED. The industry is sitting back, unregulated and free falling to see how much they can get away with before someone finally puts a governing foot down. Nothing, and I mean nothing in the production of eggs has either RISEN or caused a SHORTAGE of. Neither is the case with eggs, just greed.

Yes, what came 1st the prices or the eggs ?

Corporate greed, plain and simple. Companies claim they need to keep raising their prices while they make record profits.

Wallmart storebrand eggs are $3.50 for 18 ct. in Anchorage Alaska. sooo $2.31 a dozen? (shrug)

These story's on eggs are total bs. I have a bud in Mexico he pays 1.96 us for eggs. The problem is this country and tge way retail stores are charged . There are too many hands in the pot when it comes to merchandise in this country and not to mention food is way cheaper in mex.

What I find interesting is organic egg prices didn’t go up. The brown good eggs with the bright orange yokes that are better for you. Interesting how they didn’t raise in price. Maybe we should reward those producers for taking care of their chickens like the white egg people couldn’t.

What did you expect? I mean the way the us keeps it's chickens, i don't understand how they survive in the first place.

Use “flax eggs” in all your baked goods. 1T ground flax seed + 2.5T water per egg replacement. Works great!

Bread and pies? That is a whole new flavor of incompetence. Birds begin laying at six months old.

10$ for milk and eggs 😣

Thanks

It's the grocery stores, not the egg producers. and laying crumbles and scratch have not gone up that much. I don't think this can be blamed on Avian flu, which was months ago. the price of chickens has not gone up and it would if there was a shortage of laying hens. 12 to 15 weeks for a pullet to get to laying age. They stopped the public sale of chickens in Oklahoma months ago when Avian flu was in full swing but it didn't affect the price of Turkeyor private sales or the feed stores selling chicks. So, I'm really not seeing it. I was going to buy chicks private seller for 1 dollar a piece last summer. I didn't get my hen house built and I live in town and the city wants me to pay 30 dollars a chicken a year to keep them. Unlike the dogs people turn out to run the streets illegally, my chickens would be kept up always. In december 24 you could get 16% Layer crumbles 40 pounds for 12.99, 40 pounds of chicken fancy scratch for 11.99, 40 pounds of whole corn for 10.49 cracked would only be 1 or 2 dollars more at Orscheln bought by tractor Supply and Atwood's Dec. 21 to Jan 1 40 pound Fancy Scratch 12.99 and 50 pound oyster shell 11.99, Not real crazy prices. Nothing that would justify 7 dollars for a dozen eggs. Wish I would have built that henhouse now. meyer's hatchery in Ohio who ships Barred Plymouth Rock 6 chicks 4.32 a piece order more they get cheaper. Not a word of Avian flu. The public needs to wise up. Hook, line and sinker.

I seen them for 9 dollars at a store lol yesterday I just hope there isn't a shortage on chicken coming or the prices go way up

6.60 at Family Dollar Calif

Just got back from shopping, eggs are about 7 dollars for a dozen...there Not selling many ..consumers Are striking back at this inflation.

60 count egg Cost $30 at wal mart in california

9 dollars in Las Vegas

At least we are sending trillions to Ukraine to help inflation, let’s go Brandon!!!!

That's insane. Here in Thailand today, January 9 2023, the cost of a pack of 30 large size eggs costs $4 US dollars.

eggs are $6 a dozen Mr President. O Biden” “well thats great!”

A year ago it was 2.50. Now it’s 6.90….sorry eggs! Thank you, next!

Here in Austin, Texas it's $6.88-$7.28 doz.

$122 for 1 case at cash and carry

Not all states have high eggs prices. The egg rancher are self contained and not aviary flu. Droughts are not nationwide. Transportation of feed, eggs, etc. Is available. Prices are high because people are taking advantage of inflation. Greed.

Time to buy a few chickens as pets

Price of Chicken feed has gone way up also so would make egg prices higher.

King Soopers - $2.29 Natural Grocers - $1.99* Safeway - $2.49 Sprouts Farmers Market - $2.79 Target - $1.89 Trader Joe’s - $2.69 Walgreens - $2.79 Walmart - $1.64 -

Same in Europe. Inflation is a global phenomenon. However egg prices are not nearly as high. But then there are probably other food groups that are priced higher here.

Now that's just eggcellent. 😑

Why cant we find any eggs

7 dollars it's 9 dollars in las vegas

20 weeks from egg to laying hen, mine last year, 1 Apr to 1 Aug.

We own a backyard flock raised from chicks. We refinished our static pen with hardware cloth due to minks digging inside. Thank goodness we metal roofed our pen way before the northeast started seeing Avian flu. After the first cases were verified on the east coast I made sure our flock would not be let outside at all. We are in Virginia and have a nearby river. Lots of Canadian geese are here right now. The weather here has been too mild for them to push further south so far. Augusta and Rockingham County Virginia have the majority of the nations’ chicken supply on local commercial farms here. We can’t afford to risk Avian Flu. Our local economy would be devastated. For 13 years we have freely given our eggs away to neighbors and friends. Our production is down now due to fewer daylight hours, so we’re about to add our light timers on. I plan to put bantam hens on fertile eggs this spring, I don’t want to risk taking in new chicks from the local markets.

There are 360 million hens in the US.

18 count 🥚 $7.96 at Walmart in Dallas TX

Meanwhile my mom has 150 chickens 😎🐔 eggs for dayssss

Bought a 18 pack extra large eggs at Walmart in SC today for $8.78

Our eggs are $2.50 a doz. , from our Amish neighbors(up .50 from last month ;)

What states are having a hard time finding eggs on the shelf? LIES! I live in Philadelphia... I could go anywhere here, Bensalem, NJ or other areas nearby and see them loaded to the brim of a shelf. There is no egg shortage. IF there is, it is solely in one area of the nation and not enough to effect the nation as a whole.