Bird Flu Worries Send Egg Prices Higher
Egg prices continued to rise in September, marking their biggest year-over-year increase in 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The price for a dozen eggs last month rose to almost $2.97, up 3 cents from August and a 50.6 percent jump over the prices in September 2014. Prices made a record one-month jump of almost 32 percent in June, $2.57 a dozen, when worries surrounding bird flu peaked. They’ve risen 15 percent...
