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Eggs US – Price – Chart

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643 points throwaway5752 | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.284s | source
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mplanchard ◴[05 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42951168[source]▶
Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper.

This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

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jl6 ◴[05 Feb 25 17:06 UTC] No.42951632[source]▶
Are small local farms able to keep producing as normal because the birds aren’t getting bird flu or because they’re not testing/killing them?
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1. mplanchard ◴[05 Feb 25 17:19 UTC] No.42951850[source]▶
The local farms here at least are being really cautious about testing and isolation. Many of them sell their eggs to the local grocery stores, so they are bound to the same standards as other eggs.

I don’t see what benefit they would gain by not testing, anyway: if their flock is infected and a significant portion of the birds die, they are going to lose revenue the same way a massive egg producer would. If anything, I’d imagine them to want to be more cautious, since they have fewer eggs in their basket as it were (fewer total chickens).