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Posted on 12/22/2022 3:52:50 AM PST by NautiNurse
Egg prices are hitting records, driven by an avian-influenza outbreak that has killed tens of millions of chickens and turkeys this year across nearly all 50 states.
Wholesale prices of Midwest large eggs hit a record $5.36 a dozen in December, according to the research firm Urner Barry. Retail egg prices have increased more than any other supermarket item so far this year, climbing more than 30% from January to early December compared with the same period a year earlier, and outpacing overall food and beverage prices, according to the data firm Information Resources Inc.
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Some suppliers are projecting potential relief in price by February or March, but cold weather could hamper production in the near term, executives said.
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Angelo Caputo’s bought extra-large eggs for $5.09 a dozen recently, up from $1.30 at the start of the year, Mr. O’Neill said.
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Cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have so far this year led to the deaths of about 58 million birds, the deadliest outbreak in U.S. history, according to Agriculture Department data. Entire poultry flocks are destroyed after an infection is confirmed, to help limit the outbreak’s spread.
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The current outbreak has largely been attributed to wild birds spreading the virus to farms as they migrate across the country, agriculture-industry officials have said. While the 2015 outbreak ended in June, cases this year continued to pop up throughout the fall.
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They make it sound as if 58 million chickens were killed by the flu, instead of by flock extermination.
Fake Fowl Flu
Well, looks like McChicken sandwiches are off the menu...
Bwahaha! What am I saying, there’s no chicken in McChicken sandwiches!
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I think its even worse. Wally world sold 18 extra large for under $4. They are now $7.14. 12 Large were $2+. They were $4.35 yesterday.
Its unreal and almost surreal.
I blame those free range chickens.
Bird Flu is just another biological weapon in the social psychopath’s arsenal. Destroying the food supply is a social engineer’s priority.
The brand I’ve been buying wasn’t even on the shelf on Tuesday when I was there. Empty.
Very good point. Moreover, 58 million is across all bird species. 40 million egg laying chickens have been eradicated.
Ironically, the article describes:
Specialty eggs, such as organic eggs that are sold to retailers and distributors on
a fixed-price basis, can be about $1 cheaper a dozen...
Also the price of layer feed has increased dramatically in the past year, up from $14 per 50lbs to over $19.
Are we sure they didn’t just pump Remdesivir into the other 18 million and put them on little birdie ventilators?
Or maybe those birds died “with” bird flu, not of it.
Some suppliers are projecting potential relief in price by February or March...
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Filing this under “inflation is transitory”.
So now explain the price of butter. It’s very high as well.
As of now I have 8 hens and they are healthy and producing. I’ve heard all about the bird flu crap and I think that it mainly is just that, crap. I worry more about coons and the gubmint than I do bird flu.
Takes at least 4 months to go from chicks to layers and then you get pullet eggs (small) for a while.
Possibly.
Well I have a couple 100 chickens and sell clean washed, packaged eggs and you would be surprised people will not buy them and prefer to pay high grocery store prices and my prices are cheaper than the store’s..I have a road side setup and had two women just last week stop and one woman said she didn’t buy anything that wasn’t from the Store..
More of a mystery to me is the handful of items that haven’t budged in price at all. Maybe they have high profit margins that have absorbed some of the inflation or are considered loss leaders but it mystifies me.
I get them for around $3/doz at a local farm...free range, organic, all-that.
At Walmart, similar product is $4.50 for pastured, organic, and I’ll admit they taste better than the typical store-bought fragile-shelled specimens. (However, the yolks lean to orange, as if they’ve been feeding the chickens carrots.)
In any case, eggs are extremely nutritious and I bet they’re the perfect antidote to toxins like bacon and sausage.
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