Eggs prices can be over 40% this year dumped as the Trump bird flu plan discovered

The Department of Agriculture predicts that current egg record prices can fly more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details on Wednesday about its plan to combat bird flu and ease the cost of eggs.

With an emphasis on tightening the biosuria safety on the farms, agricultural secretary Brooke Rollins said USDA will invest another $ 1 billion at the top of about $ 2 billion he has already spent fighting bird flu since the beginning of the 2022 explosion.

Officials had hinted at the beginning of this month.

It is not clear that the more farmers can do to keep the virus out.

Egg farmers and birds have already worked to protect their birds since the explosion of the 2015 bird flu, taking measures as they require workers to change clothes and shower before entering the barn, using special groups of tools and sanitizing each vehicle entering the farms.

The challenge is that the virus is easily spread by wild birds as they migrate past farms.

And the main reason that egg prices have increased to reach a record average of $ 4.95 per dozen this month is that more than 166 million birds have been killed to limit the spread of the virus after most cases that are chickens laying eggs.

Last month was still the worst for egg farmers with nearly 19 million chickens laying slaughtered eggs.

Egg prices will worsen this year

USDA now predicts that egg prices will rise at least 41% this year at the top of the already record prices.

Just last month, the increase was projected to be 20%.

And the average prices hide how bad the situation is, with customers paying more than a dollar an egg in some places.

The situation is damaging customers and has made restaurants like Denny’s and Waffle House add extras to eggs.

High egg prices, which have doubled since the beginning of the explosion, cost consumers at least $ 1.4 billion last year, according to an estimate made by agricultural economists at the University of Arkansa.

Egg prices also grow normally every spring that goes to Easter when demand is high.

When will the Trump plan cut prices?

Rollins admitted that it would take some time before consumers see an effect on the collection counter.

After all, it takes months infected months to dispose of the corpses, sanitize their farms and grow new birds.

But she expressed optimism that this will help prices.

“It will take some time to spend, I think in the month or two next month, but I hope until summer,” Rollins said.

Will the holidays affect Doge’s work in the Bird’s flu war?

Rollins said she believes USDA will have the staff it needs to respond to the bird flu even after all the cuts in the federal workforce towards the Efficiency Department of Elon Musk.

“Will we have the resources needed to address the plan I just put forward? We are convinced that we want,” she said, “while we regenerate and appreciate where the USDA has spent money, where our employees are spending their time.”

Where are the money going?

The plan requires $ 500 million in investment to help farmers strengthen BIOS security measures, $ 400 million in additional aid for farmers whose flocks are affected by bird flu, $ 100 million to research and potentially develop vaccines and therapeutics for poultry flocks and explore what the administration views as limiting rules of animal welfare.

It is not clear what the extra help would be because USDA already pays farmers for any bird that must be slaughtered because of the virus, and approximately $ 1.2 billion has gone to those payments.

The administration is also in talks to import about 70 million to 100 million eggs from other countries in the coming months, Rollins said.

But there were 7.57 billion table eggs produced last month, so those imports do not seem to make a significant change in the market.

Trump administration officials have suggested that vaccines can help reduce the number of birds that should be slaughtered when there is an explosion.

However, no vaccine has been approved and the industry has said that current prototypes are not practical because they require individual shots for each bird.

Plus, vaccinated birds can endanger exports.

The National Federation of Turkey said the plan describing Rollins should help stabilize the market, but the trade group encouraged USDA to pay attention to all egg and bird farmers – not just egg manufacturers.