Why Eggs Are So Expensive Right Now

为何鸡蛋现在如此昂贵

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2025-02-22

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The price of eggs was up 15% in January, driving overall inflation higher. The cause? Bird flu. We’re joined by farmer Jim Hayes, as well as the hosts of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, to talk about how bird flu threatens the chicken supply chain and public health — and what, if anything, can be done to lower egg prices. Listen to Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • What are your favorite egg dishes?

  • Egg dishes?

  • Yeah.

  • Oh, I, I like fried eggs.

  • I have fried eggs every morning.

  • Sunny side up.

  • Yep.

  • And we make a lot of quiche, so that's good too.

  • Today, like everyone else, you know, we're talking about the price of eggs.

  • I'm Jim Hays.

  • I work at my and it's located in West Fulton, New York.

  • It's upstate New York.

  • And how many egg laying hens do you have?

  • We have right now we have about 150.

  • Jim's a small scale farmer on Sapbush Hollow Farm.

  • He raises chickens for eggs and meat.

  • He also has hogs and sheep.

  • He sells locally, not to national grocery stores.

  • But like many poultry farmers in the US Right now,