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Eggs are becoming pricier and harder to find amid the bird flu outbreak. Bird flu is spreading across the United States, causing egg prices to soar and availability to plummet. Cases of bird flu ...
"The national egg supply has been strained due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza — also known as HPAI or bird flu — which is devastating to egg farmers," Emily Metz, president and CEO of ...
More than 40% of the nation's roughly 300 million egg-laying hens are raised in cage-free facilities, but roughly 60% of "bird flu" cases recently detected involved cage-free farms. "After two ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may be no ...
The price of eggs is back on the rise, after significant bird flu outbreaks among egg-laying chickens. Prices have risen 28.1% in the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...
“The national egg supply has been strained due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza — also known as HPAI or bird flu — which is devastating to egg farmers,” Emily Metz, president and CEO ...
Egg prices have skyrocketed to all-time highs due in part to an outbreak of avian flu, or bird flu, that has been afflicting egg-laying hens in the US since 2022. Across the past three years ...
The second-largest egg producer in the U.S. reported an outbreak on Tuesday. One of the nation's top egg producers confirmed that one of its farms tested positive for cases of bird flu over the ...
“Egg prices are setting new records in 2025,” wrote Bernt Nelson, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation in a new report out Tuesday. “Some 12 million birds, mostly ...
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen. But the move has been delayed ...