{"id":39768,"date":"2025-03-16T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39768"},"modified":"2025-03-16T04:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:56:03","slug":"national-average-wholesale-price-of-eggs-drops-for-3rd-week-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39768","title":{"rendered":"National average wholesale price of eggs drops for 3rd week in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The national average wholesale price of eggs dropped for the third week in a row, as high prices<\/a> caused falling demand and bird flu outbreaks hit a lull, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average wholesale price fell to $4.15 per dozen last week, down by $2.70, according to a weekly USDA report<\/a> released on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just two weeks ago, on Feb. 28, the average wholesale price was $8.05 per dozen.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The combination of prices scaring off customers, slowed bird flu outbreaks and a later Easter this year is resulting in less demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Demand for shell eggs declined sharply over the past week as resistance to current shell egg prices grows across all sectors,” the USDA report stated. “Slowing [highly pathogenic avian influenza] outbreaks are leading to improved supply availability and wholesale market prices have responded with sharp declines over the past week.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“However, these declines have yet to be reflected at store shelves and, until they are, demand is expected to remain dampened,” the USDA added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Justice Department is in the early stages of investigating the major egg producers over soaring egg prices, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soaring price of eggs has emerged as a constant political talking point for both parties. President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has promised to lower them and Democratic senators, led by Elizabeth Warren, wrote a letter in January calling on the White House to look into producers’ and retailers’ pricing practices.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump touted the decrease during an unrelated press event on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By the way, price of eggs is down 35% in the last week and a half. We’re doing a good job,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For what consumers actually paid at the store in February, egg prices jumped another 10.4% from January — 159% over the year ago level, with an average price of $5.90 per dozen, up $0.94 per dozen from last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, which is released monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The national average wholesale price of eggs dropped for the third week in a row, as high prices caused falling demand and bird flu outbreaks hit a lull, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The average wholesale price fell to $4.15 per dozen last week, down by $2.70, according to a weekly USDA report released on Friday. Just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[1282,1586,27190],"class_list":["post-39768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-average","tag-price","tag-wholesale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39770,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768\/revisions\/39770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}