Are they falling off a cliff? Is this talking point about to disappear for idiot dems?


I'm not an egg farmer but maybe one of you can confirm?

Who?mikejones! said:

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Are they falling off a cliff? Is this talking point about to disappear for idiot dems?


I'm not arguing egg farmer but maybe one of you can confirm?

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Looks like significant progress to me.

Thank you Trump!!

I'm fairly surprised to see them drop that quickly. You can't grow chickens overnight.

I wonder if outside supply is quietly being allowed in?

Frankly I'm shocked anyone even looks at the price of eggs when they buy them. Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

Eggs being a political football? given a virus is impacting the market is ignorance on a mass scale. How come libtards never talk about debt both personal and federal. Now that is a meaningful eco issue.

I wonder if simple supply/demand is at play. We've drastically reduced the amount of eggs we purchase since the spike in prices and I bet millions of other families have as well. When demand goes down prices tend to follow.

I read something recently where eggs from Turkey were being shipped to the US to supplement supplies. I haven't see other similar stories, but I'd bet they're happening.

Here's another source showing the same trend

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

docb said:

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Frankly I'm shocked anyone even looks at the price of eggs when they buy them. Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

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OOOOH an economic badass here.

CDUB98 said:

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I'm fairly surprised to see them drop that quickly. You can't grow chickens overnight.

I wonder if outside supply is quietly being allowed in?

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Pretty sure we are importing from the country of Turkey. There was an article last week about the US taking in massive imports from overseas.

Seasonal flucuation on consumption. Egg consumption between Nov.-Feb. is the high season. Prices will come down some.

Assuming AI is mitigated to a reasonable level, industry people think we can be back to 'normal' around September.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/turkey-export-15000-tonnes-eggs-us-amid-bird-flu-disruptions-2025-02-19/

THIS WOULD BE A HUGE VICTORY FOR TRUMP

Brooke Rollins as the Ag Secretary and Former Aggie needs to be working this every day.

poor single moms and moms with large families definitely care about the price of eggs

so do restaurants

Who?mikejones! said:

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Are they falling off a cliff? Is this talking point about to disappear for idiot dems?


I'm not arguing egg farmer but maybe one of you can confirm?

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I can't get the same data from Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Same series ID: APU0000708111

https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

Data is only published through Jan '25. So the "minimal processing" is adding price/dozen data for Feb and March from some other source (not cited in your chart).

docb said:

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Frankly I'm shocked anyone even looks at the price of eggs when they buy them. Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

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Why Trump won, example A.

Last week, a box of 5 doz. eggs at Walmart was just under $30. Yesterday, they were around $20. One dozen eggs last week was around $6. Yesterday, they were $3.98. They are dropping.

The strike is over. Chickens are going back to work.

ShinerAggie said:

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I read something recently where eggs from Turkey were being shipped to the US to supplement supplies. I haven't see other similar stories, but I'd bet they're happening.

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We are, but nowhere near enough. We got like 75MM from Turkey, but the US normal consumption is ~300MM/day

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Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

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People on a budget and not as well off as you.

ShinerAggie said:

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I read something recently where eggs from Turkey were being shipped to the US to supplement supplies. I haven't see other similar stories, but I'd bet they're happening.

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What idiot can't tell a turkey egg from a chicken egg? Sheeesh.

Supply meets demand. Prices rise, demand falls as some people decide they can live without. Then suppliers find offshore sources, supply rises again, prices fall.

Demand for eggs is a lot more price elastic than you figured. That's not a supply response.

It's probably a combination of outside supply and demand reduction due to pricing pressure.

It's simple egg-onomics, yokes

Come on

Prosperdick said:

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I wonder if simple supply/demand is at play. We've drastically reduced the amount of eggs we purchase since the spike in prices and I bet millions of other families have as well. When demand goes down prices tend to follow.

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This makes the most sense to me since chicken farmers are still on news stories talking about the bird flu. I know i see egg cartons stacked high and deep at every grocery and big box store i go to.

Regardless, it's good to see prices go back to where they were a few months ago. Hopefully they stay there.

docb said:

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Frankly I'm shocked anyone even looks at the price of eggs when they buy them. Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

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I'm sure there are plenty of people that care. Where have you been the last four years or so? Maybe you are just so filthy rich that your grocery bill doesn't matter to you.

I remember getting 5 doz eggs at Costco was around $12~$14 last year and I checked over the weekend it was almost $28

HarleySpoon said:

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ShinerAggie said:

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I read something recently where eggs from Turkey were being shipped to the US to supplement supplies. I haven't see other similar stories, but I'd bet they're happening.

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What idiot can't tell a turkey egg from a chicken egg? Sheeesh.

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Shirley you can't be serious......

docb said:

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Frankly I'm shocked anyone even looks at the price of eggs when they buy them. Who really cares if they are $5 or $10.

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Holy hell, I'll never understand this mentality. Even if I made $300k a year, I would still care. Let alone the average American household salary. Each item adds up, and before you know it, those little $2-3 dollar differences, or in this case you scoffing at a $5 difference, adds up to a few hundred a month on multiple items, a few thousand a year, and could potentially be a few hundred thousand in invested difference in retirement.

oh it's no big deal that eggs are $5 more, bread is $2 more, milk is $2 more, beef is $5 more, insurance if $40 more, etc. Before you know it, again, that's a few hundred a month in costs if you aren't paying attention to what you buy, which translate literally to a few hundred thousand in retirement. Or buying a home when you save that up, etc.


And FWIW, it's not the one time $5 difference in eggs that makes a difference. It's what Eggs represent. If eggs are higher, usually everything is, and that is when it starts to add up.

Commodities can be volatile, especially when you have media hype and speculation involved. There is a shortage. The shortage was a useful political tool for a time, and the attention drove prices higher than demand would support longer term as supplies or near substitutes were routed to chase the inflated price. That has brought prices down here to a level that matches the additional supplies with demand again. Meanwhile there are probably some products or other nations who gave up some supply to our demand.

Are you the only person here who doesn't make $300k a year!?!?

Fell just short at $298k

Wouldn't matter to me if I did. I've got two boys and a wife that loves to bake. We go through a dozen eggs every two days or so.

I feel like we prop up the entire industry

Dozen Eggs at HEB per my receipts

1-1: $4.48
1-15: $4.53
1-26: $4.53
2-2: $4.53
2-8: $5.46
2-23: $5.97
3-2: $5.97
3-9: $5.97

TRUMP!!!!!!

I seem to recall from a newly hatched chick to a laying hen's first egg is about 180 days. I suspect people are buying fewer eggs