Egg prices hit a new record the first week Trump was in office. Don’t expect them to drop in 2025
Egg prices hit a new record the first week Trump was in office. Don’t expect them to drop in 2025
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The elevated egg prices is a result of the 2022 outbreak of bird flu. “Not to be the bearer of bad news, but we’re in this for a while,” Emily Metz, president and CEO of the American Egg Board, said in a statement. “Until we have time without a detection, unfortunately, this very, very tight egg supply is going to continue.”.
The current bird flu outbreak that began in February 2022 has led to the slaughter of more than 111 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens. Anytime the virus is found, every bird on a farm is killed to limit the spread of the disease. The latest wave of bird flu is scrambling supplies of cage-free eggs because California has been among the hardest-hit states. California, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon all require eggs sold in their states to be cage-free.
“We’re having to move eggs from other areas of the country that are producing cage-free to cover that low supply in those states because those states only allow for cage-free eggs to be sold,” Metz previously said in a statement. The increase in the cost of eggs is also a result of economy-wide inflation in the U.S. According to the USDA’s price outlook, prices for all foods are expected to increase by 2.2 percent in 2025, with grocery store prices predicted to increase by 1.3 percent.
“Let’s talk about eggs,” Vance said in September. “Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning. Eggs, when Kamala Harris took office, were short of $1.50 a dozen. Now a dozen eggs will cost you around $4,” he added. “Thanks to Kamala Harris’s inflationary policies, Pennsylvania actually has seen some of the worst grocery price increases of the entire nation, and again, it’s because she cast a deciding vote on the inflation explosion act.”.
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