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The price of US eggs has increased higher because farmers are forced to slaughter millions of chickens in an attempt to stop the spread of bird flu, which has spread to the burn of the country in recent months.
This week, the wholesale market reached more than $ 8, more than twice the price of one year ago and the maximum recorded, according to the information service exponance of the product price. Grocery people, including Walmart and Crown, have started purchase rations in some cases. Weaphle House Chain – A major in the US South and Midwest – a surcharge of 50 cents in its dishes.
Farmers are shortening fresh egg supplies due to millions of chickens to control a variant of the first Avian influenza in the US commercial flock three years ago.
Like the price of petrol, the eggs are visible, if unstable then the signpost of inflation to the customers. Customer has increased by price index 3 percent Labor Labor Bureau said on Wednesday that in January, an egg index went up to more than 50 percent. The US Department of Agriculture Department forecast this year that the average US resident will eat about 270 eggs this year.
Egg prices also have political resonies and there was an attack line in the propaganda last year for the White House. Then the US Vice-President JD Vans stood in front of a supermarket egg case to criticize his predecessor Kamala Harris’s economic policies, while the US city Average According to the Labor Statistics Bureau, the price of eggs at large grade was $ 3.82. The price was $ 4.95 in January.
The Democrats have now occupied the matter. “We went to get some eggs, and we could see that the prices of these eggs were now jumping at about $ 8. But there was no egg, “Ted Liu, a Democratic representative in California, said on a recent trip to the grocery store this week.
Top egg retailers are Walmart, Costo, Croogar, Albertson and Aldy, according to numbers. The market research agency said the majority-5 percent of the customers noticed local retailers deficiency or eggs outside the store.
The chains, including Croogar, Aldy and Walmart, have imposed restrictions on the purchase in specific locations or in the form of specific packages.
“Although the supply is very strong, we are working to help meet the customer’s needs with the suppliers, trying to keep the price as low as possible,” Walmart said, which is restricting the purchase of 60-count carton for visits to two.
Cal-Maine Foods, the largest US producer and fresh shell egg distributor, says the supply of demand because it is quarterly total profit is $ 356 million, four times a year ago.
“Without question, we face significant challenges between our company and the entire egg industry because of the ongoing outbreak,” Avian influenza chief executive Sherman Miller said last month.
Experience Managing Secretary Carin Rispoli says farmers have lost about 46 million or 5 million national flocks in the last four months. “When Flu “Waves have come to the wave for the past few years, this current outbreak is still the most deadly, no signs of slow,” he said.
Gino Lorenzoni, associate professor of Poultry Sciences and Avian Health at Penn State University, says the virus usually spreads from the farm to the farm by wild birds. Workers in contact with their dropping can take it to a chicken barn on their boots.
Once a single case has been detected, a whole jerk must be cool.
“The virus is very deadly,” said Lorenzoni, but the industry “before getting the chance to spread the virus -before getting the chance to spread to the violin” tries to get there very quickly and kill the animals. ”
He said that the price of eggs has only risen because the chicken has decreased, but the enhanced biocuity system, such as displaying covers, bouts and haircuts, and extended sterile protocols, continued to operating on the farm, because he said.
On the other hand, the demand for the cage -free egg market was increasing, as each barn contains less animals, Lorenjani said.
The USDA has raised it this week Forecast The average wholesale price of the egg in the grade is $ 2025 per dozen $ 444444, more than half of its projection in January. The department assumes that our chickens will give 8.96bn eggs this year, which will cut its view from last month.
Due to the demand for the Great on winter holidays, the prices remain a bit of UST, vice-president of advanced economic solution, Amy Smith, a food and agricultural consultant. Last month, intense winter storms managed to store families in southeast, while popular GLP -1 weight loss drugs are moving towards their diet protein.
Smith and expanner Rispoli say that supermarkets in some cases keep their retail egg prices as a damaged leader, to attract customers’ stores.
“Although some prices have been raised, they have not been significant enough to prevent consumer interest.”
