It's been nearly a month since a major bird flu outbreak impacted egg-laying hens, the department said. It reported the national wholesale price for large eggs dropped to $3.27 per dozen as of ...

“And then when our chicken populations are repopulated, and we’ve got a full egg-laying industry going again, hopefully in a couple of months, we then shift back to our internal egg-layers and ...

Industry experts know the solution to the current egg crisis will not be a quick fix, but they do believe U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ $1 billion comprehensive strategy to ...

Egg-laying hens have been hit particularly hard, and egg prices have soared as a result: In January, the average price of a dozen large, grade-A eggs was $4.95, a record high according to the U.S ...

the average inventory of U.S. egg-laying hens was 375 million, down 14 million, or 3.5% from 389 million hens prior to the 2022 outbreak of HPAI. In 2024, table egg production was about 93.1 billion ...

Individual females are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warmer conditions, researchers report in the February Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Scientists have long known ...

$400 million will go toward financial relief for farmers dealing with chicken shortages while $100 million will be invested in the use of vaccines and therapeutics for egg-laying hens.

They are fragile, have a short shelf life and difficult to import. It takes up to five months to raise egg-laying chickens. Paul Harrison, an Australian economist, has likened egg shortages to the ...

“And then when our chicken populations are repopulated, and we’ve got a full egg-laying industry going again, hopefully in a couple of months, we then shift back to our internal egg-layers and moving ...

"When our chicken populations are repopulated and we've got a full egg laying industry going again, hopefully in a couple of months, we then shift back to our internal egg layers and moving those ...