Egg prices again reached a record high in February, as the bird flu continues to run rampant and Easter and Passover approach ...

The price of one dozen eggs rose to a high of more than $8 this month, but reports suggest costs are finally beginning to ...

Bird flu is sweeping through egg-laying chickens in the United States at an unprecedented rate. So far in 2025, 30 million layers, as they’re known, have been culled, close to the 38 million killed ...

Egg producers blame the bird flu outbreak for driving prices to ... higher prices because supplies are tight,” University of Arkansas agricultural economist Jada Thompson said.

Fewer and more expensive eggs in 2024 put estimated $1.41 billion burden on consumers in 2024, according to study by a trio ...

With record high egg prices, should the U.S. vaccinate chickens against bird flu? Any such program would be expensive and logistically difficult.

Advocacy groups, Democratic lawmakers and a Federal Trade Commission member are calling for a government investigation ...

The USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of roughly $2 billion it already spent battling bird flu since the outbreak ...

The current outbreak of bird flu in the U.S. was first ... we’re down 7 percent of our supply” of egg-laying hens, said Jada Thompson, an associate professor of agribusiness at the University of ...

In this month’s Short Talks from the Hill, agricultural economist Jada Thompson from the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences explains why the current strain of bird flu has ...