What's going on with egg prices ?

We have a lady that we buy are eggs from. She charges $3 a dozen, and they are so much better than the store bought, which are around $7 here. We have been giving her $4. She doesn't always have them this time of year, but we just got a dozen this last week.
 

Personally, I think the chickens are trying to tell us something.

It's a little-known fact that chickens are prescient when it comes to natural disasters. I'd be on the look-out for an earthquake or tsunami, or maybe even an asteroid strike.

;)
 
There's a lot of information about the whys and wherefores of these crazy high egg prices.

Among US domestic poultry, there are some 57 million dead turkeys and egg-laying chickens, mostly from flock culling/depopulation/euthanizing to try to stop its spread from Feb-Dec 2022, though some losses are from the virus itself.

The virus is 90%-100% fatal to chickens, often within 48 hours and is highly transmissible.

That's why egg prices are sky high. Some predict egg prices will come down in a few months. Others are suggesting it could take 9 months or more. I'm hoping the former is true.

In the meantime, the eggs I have on hand will be used for actual egg dishes like scrambled eggs. There are numerous baking substitutes that work well so no sense wasting my eggs on them.

My son was at Aldi yesterday - price of eggs was $6.99/dozen. Avocados were $.59 each. Translation: a dozen avocados were only a few cents more than a dozen eggs! (Not that they're interchangeable because they're not, the math just startled him...)
 
CallMeKate said:
As far as I know, @IKE , they're blaming Avian Flu. Is that the only reason? I'm skeptical... sometimes it seems as if prices double or more just because "they can" and use the alarmingly high inflation rate as an excuse. Ours are averaging about $4.75/dozen... or were last week. Who knows for this week? :rolleyes:
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Ours are the same and I agree with your explanation as to why. :mad:
 
Since I already have a dozen eggs, I decided not to buy more. I was sorely tempted but have decided I won’t be doing any baking so will wait and see. Don’t want to be part of the hoarding problem. A bag of egg substitute for baking is $9.
 
Jules said:
Since I already have a dozen eggs, I decided not to buy more. I was sorely tempted but have decided I won’t be doing any baking so will wait and see. Don’t want to be part of the hoarding problem. A bag of egg substitute for baking is $9.
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Ground flax seed and water is also a good, inexpensive egg substitute. Yogurt works, too. Depends on what you're baking, of course, but there's lots of reliable info on the internet about egg substitutes.
 
We need to understand that ALL eggs are owned and sold by a few large corporations that control production and pricing. The farmers are under contract to produce for these corporations and have no say - "Either you do what we say or we don't pay you anymore." And the farmers are so far in debt that they have to comply. So a uniform price increase is, regardless of brand name, controlled by the same corporation. The names or farms mean nothing. Same goes for beef, pork and chicken meat.
 
oldaunt said:
So how is the price of chicken now, since they come from the same source as the eggs? Can't have one without the other.
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Kroger has Heritage Farm fresh chicken thighs at .99 cents a pound. Costco's brand is $1.49. That's pretty cheap. Luckily for me, an egg breakfast is low on the totem pole.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Kroger has Heritage Farm fresh chicken thighs at .99 cents a pound. Costco's brand is $1.49. That's pretty cheap. Luckily for me, an egg breakfast is low on the totem pole.
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I like eggs, but I'm not eating many now.

Hah! Basically, our weekly menu is derived from the weekly sale circulars!

I'm OK with that. Food is a lot like gas for your car. it has to be a certain level of quality, but exceeding that is like buying premium when your car runs well on regular.
 
Although I continue to buy eggs, I consume fewer of them. Regardless of COVID, Avian Flu, fuel prices, or anything else, the price of food is still rising, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. Any justification, genuine or not, can be used to raise prices. Greed is alive, well, and thriving. 🤑💸
 
MikeyDude said:
We need to understand that ALL eggs are owned and sold by a few large corporations that control production and pricing. The farmers are under contract to produce for these corporations and have no say - "Either you do what we say or we don't pay you anymore." And the farmers are so far in debt that they have to comply. So a uniform price increase is, regardless of brand name, controlled by the same corporation. The names or farms mean nothing. Same goes for beef, pork and chicken meat.
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Please cite evidence to support your statements.
 
There are fairly new laws regarding the humane treatment of chickens on US egg farms. For example, they have to provide so-many feet of space per chicken, had to pay to get the feed inspected, had to switch to vets with specific qualifications....just to name a few.

Egg farmers had to rearrange their whole farms and replace all the fencing and heaters and stuff, and those farms are massively huge, so the upgrades were expensive and they had to take out loans.
 
It was cool til those Chickens got unionized and moved to the burbs, have you seen the cars that those birds drive? and the Roosters are the worst with their Bentleys and the Hens in their Mustangs....those birds are out of control!!!
 

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