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[Kachina624]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts consumers will be paying less for beef, pork, lamb, chicken and turkey in early 2018 than at the start of 2017. Not so for eggs.

Egg prices during the first three months of 2018 are likely to be more than 35 percent higher than they were during the same period of 2017, USDA's Economic Research Service says. The increase, from about 80 cents for a dozen grade A large eggs at the start of 2017 to predictions of $1.06 to $1.12 for a dozen, is due to several months of increased sales.

Iowa State University professor Hongwei Xin, who directs the school's Egg Industry Center, says domestic and international demand for U.S. eggs is on the rise.

"We are at 273.7, about 274 eggs per capita per year," he says of U.S. consumption. "This is the highest of the past 38 years." And he says it's expected to continue climbing.

Meanwhile, bird flu, which devastated the Midwest poultry sector in 2015, affected egg production this year in other countries, including South Korea, the Philippines, South Africa and the Netherlands

From the USDA

[ID2]

If I don't buy local, my Meijer store sells a dozen of eggs for .49 cents. That's it!

[NYC Susan]

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@Bridgegal wrote:

@esmeraldagooch

That is 24 cents an egg.   That sounds like a bargain.   A single apple can cost $2.50.   One lemon $1.00.   Russet potato over $1.00.   I could go on but it just seems like there is a lot of angst about a very cheap food item.

And no, I don't work in the egg industry.   

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That was my first thought too.  Even at a higher-than-usual price, eggs are a very good value.

[Annabellethecat66]

For at least 10 minutes I've been trying to find out the cost of 1 dozen eggs in Northern Va.  Good grief!

What a pain!  I've gotten information for everything BUT the price of 1 dozen eggs!

Maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago Walmart was selling 1 dozen eggs for  49 cents, that cents.

I don't remember eggs costing very much.  I always buy the 18 count.  I don't notice they've been more money than usual.

I shop at Harris Teeter grocery store.  I think they're mainly on the East Cost in the Va area.

[house_cat]

Here in CA, the prices shot up a couple of years ago when laws were passed about humane treatment of the chickens, causing breeders to spend money upgrading their facilities.  If this is true, I'm happy to spend more.

[Bridgegal]

@house_cat

Me too.   Exactly.   Thank you California.

[bikerbabe]

I pay $7-$8 eggs from organic pasture- raised hens. I will not support inhumane treatment of chickens.

[sol_luna]

One of my BFF's has chickens. I don't buy eggs.

[sunshine45]

i purchased jumbo eggs last week at the grocery store......more than half were double yolks. they were 3.49.

i purchased 3 dozen large eggs today at sams club (eggs came from a farm in pennsylvania.) they were $8 for 3 dozen.

i consider eggs pretty much a bargain. when i see them on sale at a farmers market i buy them OR when i am traveling to the beach through delaware i stop and buy some at one of the roadside stands.

[nun ya]

This weekend, I saw extra large eggs( not organic, free range etc), 18 pack for $6.29.  Which made little sense, because right beside them, a dozen large were $1.99.