It owns 43 egg production facilities, which stuff an average of 1 million hens into each operation. Despite narratives blaming bird flu shortages for price hikes, Cal-Maine factory farms remained free ...

For the past couple months, egg prices have jumped in Illinois and around the country, but a Midwestern farm organization is ...

The current bird flu outbreak ... especially egg-laying hens, is not the result of direct infection of the flu virus, but the result of the U.S. policy for individual farms to depopulate their ...

Due to bird flu. Nothing else.” Cashier Josh Jimenez rings up egg for sale at a grocery store on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Dallas. AP Farm Action suspects monopolistic behavior. The group that ...

Despite a major federal investment to help egg and poultry producers ... Wayne-Sanderson Farms received more than $600,000 from the USDA's bird flu assistance program to replace three flocks ...

Sky-high egg prices ... On dairy farms, infected cows shed the virus through their mammary glands, so they are most likely infected through milk and during milking. When a bird flu outbreak ...

Bird farms are trying to repopulate amid an ongoing outbreak of avian flu, which could bring some relief to the price of eggs in the coming months. "From what I hear, the industry in California ...

Due to bird flu. Nothing else.” Farm Action suspects monopolistic behavior. The group that lobbies on behalf of smaller farmers, consumers and rural communities notes that egg production is only ...