The outbreak has also led to the death of millions of egg-laying chickens in the U.S. – either from infection or culling of flocks. As a result, egg prices have continued to rise, with the ...

The HPAI epidemic resulted in a record number of deaths of egg-laying hens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a recent report. In the last quarter of 2024, more than 20 million egg ...

Egg prices rose more than 15% from December to January, marking the largest increase in 10 years as bird flu hurts the nation’s poultry supply and some grocery chains limit egg purchases ...

As bird flu cases continue to rise in the U.S., heavily impacting egg-laying flocks, so have the prices on cartons of fresh eggs due to dwindling supply. Egg prices are through the roof ...

The nation’s biggest egg marketplace doesn’t own hens, farms or processing plants. From an office building in New Hampshire, roughly a dozen people facilitate the trading of billions of eggs a ...

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He holds a BA from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA from The New School. Why are egg prices so high? A major bird flu outbreak has led to millions of hens being culled, causing a severe egg shortage.