Egg prices have been through a volatile 18 months, rallying sharply in LH 2024 and into early 2025 as bird flu decimated the U.S. layer flock. In early 2025, the U.S. layer flock for table eggs specifically fell to at least a 10-year low, at 286.4 million birds, down about 16 percent from the 2019 highs. Since then, the industry has done a good job of recovering, and egg prices spent most of 2025 sliding lower, aside from the normal Christmas holiday baking demand rally. Now, prices are hovering at five-year record lows of $1.04/dozen (Northeast, Extra Large, delivered to warehouse) and near their lowest values in 10 years.
What’s driving this price weakness? Is there an oversupply of eggs? Not really. U.S. table egg productio...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
