Beneath the Biden-Harris administration, farmers have been compelled to cull tens of thousands and thousands of egg-laying hens to include the chicken flu outbreak. As a direct end result, the nation’s whole egg-laying flock has plunged to its lowest stage in almost a decade, driving wholesale egg costs to report highs.
Trump said this week that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will take motion on hovering egg costs, including, “We inherited all the issues.”
Trump is appropriate in saying the egg-flation mess was “inherited,” as the newest Bloomberg information reveals that the nation’s egg-laying hen inhabitants fell to its lowest stage since 2016 final month. This decline was pushed by farmers being compelled to cull flocks beneath Biden’s first time period to curb the chicken flu outbreak.
“It was vital to me to see firsthand an egg-laying farm facility implementing sturdy biosecurity measures. We’ve a whole lot of work to do as we fight avian flu, assist our poultry business get well, and produce the worth of eggs down for all People. Extra coming mid-week on this,” Rollins wrote on X on Monday.
It was vital to me to see firsthand an egg laying farm facility implementing sturdy biosecurity measures. We’ve a whole lot of work to do as we fight avian flu, assist our poultry business get well, and produce the worth of eggs down for all People. Extra coming mid-week on this.… pic.twitter.com/rB699lGYoM
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) February 24, 2025
Monday’s print of the Urner Barry Egg Index EBP reveals wholesale costs jumped to $7.56, a new report excessive. Since late Decemeber, wholesale costs have jumped to new report highs by the week, with studies of egg shortages nationwide.
We suggested readers at the beginning of the month:
Time To Construct Yard Hen Coop As Wholesale Egg Costs Hit New Report Highs https://t.co/nJiB1tYvNO
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 4, 2025
In line with the USDA’s chicken flu dashboard, 19 million birds throughout the Decrease 48 have been contaminated by avian influenza over the past 30 days.
It is time to arrange these hen coops, of us.
Panic looking out on Google.
And do not forget honeybees and victory gardens—grow to be self-sufficient and take again management of your personal meals provide chain as a substitute of counting on mega-corporations that poison meals with poisonous seed oils and different chemical substances in processed meals.
