REPORTER: Bird Flu, Strong Retail Demand Send Egg Prices Soaring
This article was originally featured in the WINTER 2024 Edition of Urner Barry’s Reporter magazine.
After more than five weeks of no change, the shell-egg market began its seasonal ascent in the penultimate week of October, as it often does, on a combination of strengthening retail demand and mounting confidence in the lead-up to Thanksgiving. Days later, that upward momentum got kicked into overdrive, following reports that the bird flu had broken out on a commercial layer farm for the first time in 11 months...
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