Posted on 11/13/2025 10:45:11 AM PST by DallasBiff
US egg prices October 2025 have collapsed at a record pace. According to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), wholesale egg prices have dropped 86% since March, falling from about $8.20 per dozen to just $1.15 per dozen this month.
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I will give a very simplified explanation of how things work in commercial egg production.
It takes a laying hen (white leghorn) between six to nine months to grow to egg laying maturity.
They start laying at six months but the eggs are often small and not suited for the supermarket. They go to the factory to be processed into egg powder or the stuff in cartons.
If you have a 3000 laying hen farm you would have 500 new chicks, 500 who are at six months, 500 who were around a year, 500 that were at a year and half, 500 at two years and 500 that at two and half years and are due to be culled when the next batch of chicks arrive from the hatchery in six months.
All very simple. But the little man from the Ag department shows up and says that there is suspicion of bird flu in a egg farm ten miles away and so they are going to slaughter all your birds.
And that is exactly how it worked. You did not have to have any sick birds. Maybe even the ground zero farm did not have any sick birds. There was just a suspicion.
There is no court of appeals. Your birds will be slaughtered.
So you clean out your empty sheds. And you need to replace the laying hens. But you can't.
The hatchery has your standing order for 500 chicks and they have set things up for you to get that number every six months. They can not suddenly produce 3000 chicks for you. There is some wiggle room but not that much. And none of the other chicken farms in your area that have been culled are going to get replacements either. Let's say there were five farms in the area affected. That is 12,500 eggs a day no longer being produced. And it will be six months before that number will budge. And the five farms will be producing 2,500 at most.
And heaven help us if a hatchery got hit.
They would be at least nine months before they could start producing chick again.
Grok:
“Difference: A 2025 Toyota Corolla costs about 6.5% more ($1,580 higher) out-the-door on a population-weighted basis in states with Democratic-controlled legislatures — almost entirely driven by higher state + local vehicle sales taxes (and occasionally higher registration fees).”
Affordability!!!
Grok:
“Difference: Residents pay about 55% more ($3,460 higher per person annually) in total state + local taxes on a population-weighted basis in states with Democratic-controlled legislatures.”
Affordability!!!
Suspected and anticipated bird flu
Math is hard for libs. As are facts.
Thanks. I suspected something like that. Gasoline probably also.
Democrats will always tax you more.
Meanwhile red states like Florida and Texas have no state income tax.
Are we sure they’re not fibbing about $8.20/dozen wholesale in March? I never encountered basic eggs that high on the retail level in an expensive area.
Grok:
“To match the Republican-state standard ($58,917 net for consumption):
• Net needed in Democratic states: $70,834 ($58,917 × 1.202)
• Gross income needed in Democratic states: $80,614 ($70,834 net + $9,780 taxes)
A person must earn $15,377 more annually (or 23.6% more) in a Democratic-controlled state compared to the Republican-state average.”
Affordability!!!
See #18 for the answer on gas.
Much better than a business lesson from a "professor" in college.
It’s a lot easier to get chickens up and running then cattle. Hopefully we fix the cow problem too but I think that will take a little longer.
The egg prices were artificially caused by killing off a lot of chickens
True. However, I think Shukla does a disservice of broadening the scope to food prices in general. Perhaps there may be some adjustments in foods that use eggs as an input, but I don’t think consumers should expect much of an impact on most food products.
They used the same PCR text that was used in the fake pandemic. According to the creator of the PCR test, it does not differentiate between viruses. It can only tell you a virus has proably been detected, not the type or kind of virus.
Naming the virus from just looking at a PCR result is bogus and if more than 32 cycles are used then any positive hit is statistically invalid.
I worked as a supplier for the grocery business for decades.
Mostly dairy and eggs.
It is a huge complicated business that, I have found, very few people outside it understand.
It is set up so we have enough production without a great deal of overrun. There is some, and it goes to be turned into egg powder and such, but not a great deal.
But, as I tried to show, it can be upset with just a bit of government action. Which is what happened.
My fear was that they were going to start going after the dairy industry the same way and there were hints that would have hit this year. We dodged a bullet.
Milk and eggs are the cheapest source of fats and protein for people on a limited budget.
Get rid of those two items and you are going to have food riots. Not from the welfare people, but by the working people. The ones who stock the shelves.
That is how you get revolutions.
Commercial birds are kept in large sheds, protected carefully and fed a controlled diet. Any new bird are quarantined to prevent illness.
Commercial laying hens should not have been getting sick.
Backyard chickens are running around outside, interacting with all kinds of wild birds, eating bugs and plant waste with a small amount of chicken feed.
They should have been getting sick.
I had my doubts about the "virus" when I noticed that none of our backyard chickens were getting sick. And they should have. I know a bunch of people who were raising backyard chickens. None of them were having sick chickens. Even in areas where there was supposedly an outbreak.
Everything about this was wrong.
I buy “Pasture Raised” eggs because the chickens are free to eat anything they find on the ground.Far healther for them, and the yolks are not yellow, they’re golden. Don’t care what they cost. All the stores carry them and Trader Joe’s has the best price.
Some Freeper raises chickens that way, says the birds eat bugs and worms, lizards and even a frog. Grain fed to hen house birds is not their natural diet.
I’m in Vegas. I got a dozen for $5.00 the other day. Manager’s Special. The rest of them were $6.99 and higher.
In constant dollars, $3.05 in 2025 = $2.40 in 2019.
Inflation has made that much difference. The cumulative inflation over that period is calculated at 27%.
This is using the Consumer Price Index which, IMHO, understates inflation.
After adjusting for inflation, gas prices today are about the same as they were in 2019.
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