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Will egg prices go up amid more bird flu outbreaks? 

by Janet Nguyen
Apr 11, 2024
Retail egg prices rose between 7.2% and 9.2% from the 2022 outbreak, according to a University of Arkansas paper.
Egg prices more than doubled at the beginning of 2023, after the bird flu infected tens of millions of hens, compared to the same period the previous year.
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Bird flu has killed chickens and scrambled egg prices

by Kerry Klein
Mar 18, 2024
Since early 2022, more than 80 million birds, most of them egg layers, have been stricken by the disease.
Poultry caretakers and processors take strict biosecurity measures to keep avian influenza and other viruses away from their birds.
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Added to consumer price woes: avian flu is raising the cost of eggs

by Savannah Peters
Apr 21, 2022
The American Egg Board estimates about 6% of the laying hen population has been affected.
Sam Krouse, co-head of MPS Egg Farms, says that the industry is recovering well from a widespread outbreak of avian flu that caused egg prices to skyrocket.
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Chickens come home to roost for new baby chick owners

by Carlos Morales
Jun 17, 2020
Hatcheries across the country saw a surge in orders when the lockdown began. The chickens came first, then the eggs.
Douglas Friedman was stuck at home because of shelter-in-place orders, so he decided to raise chickens with a neighbor.
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As Americans shift breakfast to home, wholesale egg and orange juice prices soar

by Mitchell Hartman
Mar 30, 2020
Staying home is making Americans cook breakfast at home. Demand for eggs and other breakfast staples is pushing prices up for retailers.
Egg prices are up as consumer habits change during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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An animal welfare rule aimed at organic egg production is on the chopping block

by Julie Grant
Jan 11, 2018
The Trump administration has proposed doing away with a rule that mandated that organic egg laying chickens spend time outdoors.
Chickens congregate on a New Hampshire farm.
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Homesteading in the digital age

by Sean McHenry
Jan 9, 2018
Is there a future in growing our food and trading it for the things we want?
An urban farm in Berlin, Germany.
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What's up with eggs from vegetarian hens?

by Annie Baxter
Nov 29, 2016
Chickens aren't vegetarians. But there's a market for eggs from vegetarian-fed hens.
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Eggs are so cheap, the U.S. is stepping in to buy some

by Annie Baxter
Sep 2, 2016
A 1935 program authorizes the U.S.D.A's purchase of excess commodities, like eggs.
A notice that the price of eggs will be rising soon is seen at a Giant grocery store in Clifton, Virginia. In 2015, widespread outbreaks of Avian Flu costed poultry producers almost 40 million birds, causing the price of eggs to rise sharply.      
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Egg prices are up, but chicken breast is not

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 3, 2015
Kai talks to Ed Fryar, CEO of Ozark Mountain Poultry in Rogers, Arkansas.
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