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

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 ...

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

There is at least one winner in the current shortage, which began in 2022: the country’s biggest egg producer.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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