180 egg drop tests Tal Cohen, an MIT associate professor, and her colleagues conducted a series of 180 drop tests to compare how chicken eggs break when orientated vertically or side-on. After ...

Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone ...

By contrast, wholesale egg prices -- the amount grocers pay to suppliers -- have dropped significantly since Trump took office, though Trump appeared to overstate the amount of decline during the ...

Egg prices, which hit a record high of $8.17 per dozen in early March 2025, have since dropped rapidly to $4.90 per dozen within a week, marking one of the sharpest declines in recent history ...

A customer shops for eggs at a grocery store on March 12 in Chicago. Wholesale egg prices are going down, but it could take several days before grocery prices follow suit.

An outlook from the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts egg prices will increase about 20% within the year, compared with a predicted 2.2% increase for overall food prices.

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.