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  • US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter

    04/10/2025 3:23:37 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 88 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Updated 4:54 PM EDT, April 10, 2025 | JOSH FUNK and DEE-ANN DURBIN
    U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.... ....The farms that had fall outbreaks have been working to resume egg production after sanitizing their barns and raising new flocks, but chickens must be about six months old before they start laying eggs. Thompson said those farms did not come back online as quickly as anticipated. The increase reported Thursday in the Consumer Price Index means consumers and businesses that rely on eggs might not...
  • Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills

    11/14/2024 8:59:54 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 76 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | November 14, 2024 | BY DEE-ANN DURBIN (D-AP)
    Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills. Trump often railed on the campaign trail against hefty price increases for bacon, cereal, crackers and other items. “We’ll get them down,” he told shoppers during a September visit to a Pennsylvania grocery store. But the food price inflation that stunned the U.S. — and other parts of the world — in 2021 and 2022 had complicated causes that are difficult to unwind, from the pandemic to the Ukraine war to avian flu. And many economists think Trump’s...