What the cluck is happening with egg prices?

这鸡蛋价格怎么啦?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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2025-02-18

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We visit a local egg farm and talk to an industry analyst to get to the bottom of why the prices of eggs are soaring so quickly and when they might come back to earth. Related episodes: Egg Prices: States Cry Foul Indicators of the Week: tips, eggs and whisky Go ask ALICE about grocery prices For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Npr.

  • Last week, Waylon, I drove to a farm in New Jersey to investigate an economic problem.

  • At our kitchen table, it was frosty snowshoe leather journalism.

  • Is that you crunching on the snow?

  • Indeed, yes.

  • Hi, Brittnik.

  • Yes, hi.

  • I was at Cedar Gate Farm to meet farmer Brittany Clenden.

  • I hoped Brittany could help me answer a question from an Indicator listener, Carolyn Burns.

  • What's making egg prices so high and when will they come back down?

  • Carolyn said her baby daughter eats a.

  • Lot of eggs like Paul Newman.

  • A baby might be the Paul Newman of egg eaters.

  • And yeah, this is a question that a lot of people have been asking over the last month.

  • It's all over the news.

  • Egg prices are nearly double from a year ago.

  • Some supermarke are empty.

  • So, yes.

  • This is not a joke.

  • Not a joke.