Bring on the Omelets: Bigger Flocks Send Egg Price to Decade-Low
- U.S. farmers ramped-up production after bird-flu scare
- Market is now ‘drowning’ in egg supplies, analyst says
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It doesn’t matter if you like them hard-boiled, scrambled or soaked in heart-clogging hollandaise sauce: when eggs are this cheap, it’s a good time to get cracking.
Supplies in the U.S. have surged so much in recent months that prices are the lowest for this time of year in at least a decade. It will probably take awhile for consumers to eat through the surplus inventory, so the government is predicting egg costs will drop more than any other food group in 2017.