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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: 0.242s | 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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hwillis ◴[05 Feb 25 17:30 UTC] No.42952041[source]▶
Bird flu has 95% lethality in chickens and takes ~48 hours to kill. It's not like they can get away with ignoring it. Testing happens when you wake up and half your birds are already dead.

That said OP is asserting local costs haven't changed without evidence. Even if that were true (and I don't think it is- local farms are also being hit hard eg duck farming in NY) it probably speaks far more to small operations having a harder time changing their prices. Or the cheap eggs are just places who haven't been hit yet.

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1. Larrikin ◴[06 Feb 25 18:32 UTC] No.42965107[source]▶
I personally don't really like eggs. I only buy them when I need them for ingredients in something I plan to cook soon, so I haven't been tracking their price over time. But we are making a cake this week and had been hearing about the eggs problem for a while now.

Yesterday, eggs were not sold out at my local grocery store. There was a sign saying they may limit purchases. The crappy bottom of the barrel eggs were selling for 9 dollars a dozen. Pretty much all the eggs that touted organic or farm fresh on their containers were going for 4 to 5 a dozen, which seems reasonable. I assume those are from the local farms.