Egg costs proceed to swing drastically, cracking already strained grocery budgets

by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
February 3, 2025

by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
February 3, 2025

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Egg costs stay risky within the wake of the continued chicken flu outbreaks, which have decimated industrial poultry and egg manufacturing throughout the U.S.

On the finish of 2024, the epidemic pushed egg costs to the second-highest degree – $4.15 per dozen – up to now decade, in accordance with the Client Value Index. That’s second solely to the primary onset of the latest chicken flu outbreaks.

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Retail grocery shops had been nonetheless coping with inflationary pressures attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic when preliminary chicken flu outbreaks started throughout the nation in early 2022.

By the top of that 12 months, egg costs had doubled from the 12 months earlier than, from lower than $2 a dozen to greater than $4 a dozen, in accordance with the Client Value Index.

Egg costs started to stabilize all through 2023, however as new waves of chicken flu hit, the value of eggs shot again up. 

Hen flu has ravaged industrial poultry and egg manufacturing, with greater than 134 million birds killed since early 2022.

The latest rise in grocery staples can be attributed to post-COVID-19 pandemic inflationary pressures, a scarcity of beef cattle attributable to droughts, and chicken flu outbreaks. 

Beef costs climbed 22% from early 2022 to the top of final 12 months, a mirrored image of the long-term ripple results of declining herd sizes within the face of feed and water shortages. 

Grocery costs have taken heart stage as activists, politicians and authorities businesses have denounced meat and meals business consolidation alongside alleged worth gouging.

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