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...
Avian Flu Drives Up Egg Prices
Kansas City, Mo. — Three weeks ago, if you ordered a three-egg omelet from Roxanne’s Cafe in the Kansas City suburb of Parkville, you would probably get a five-egg omelet instead. Cooks weren’t too concerned about how many eggs they scooped into the frying pan, and owner Roxanne Gray gladly allowed it. Today, Roxanne’s is more stringent. A three-egg omelet means three eggs. No more, no less. “I have one cook that I can’t control his...
Bird Flu Increases ‘Breaker Egg’ Price
Chicago — Joe Greco, who’s been churning out cookies and cakes for 27 years, usually uses about 600 pounds of liquid eggs a week at his bakery near Chicago. Now, his freezer has seven times that amount because Greco worries that record prices are about to go even higher. The cost of “breaker eggs” — those cracked and sold in liquid form for use by wholesale bakers and restaurants such as McDonald’s — have more than doubled in the past...
