What the cluck is happening with egg prices?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We visit a local egg farm and talk to an industry analyst to get to the bottom of why the prices of eggs are soaring so quickly and when they might come back to earth.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.1	Last week, Wayland, I drove to a farm in New Jersey to investigate an economic problem at our kitchen table.
0:20.5	It was frosty.
0:22.5	Snow shoe leather journalism? Is that you crunch in on the snow?
0:25.6	Indeed, yes.
0:28.7	Hi, Bertig.
0:29.6	Yes. Hi.
0:30.7	I was at Cedar Gate Farm to meet farmer Brittany Clendennon.
0:34.5	I hoped Brittany could help me answer a question from an indicator listener,
0:38.2	Carolyn Burns. What's making egg prices so high? And when will they come back down?
0:42.9	Carolyn said her baby daughter eats a lot of eggs. Like Paul Newman. A baby might be the
0:47.5	Paul Newman of Eggie days. And yeah, this is a question that a lot of people have been asking
0:52.2	over the last month. It's all over the news.
0:54.9	Egg prices are nearly double from a year ago.
0:57.9	Some supermarket fridges are empty.
1:00.2	So, yes, this is not a joke.
1:02.5	Not a joke.
1:03.3	I can confirm I was at Target recently.
1:05.1	They had zero eggs on the shelf.
1:07.1	So I needed to crack the case.
1:09.6	Oh, you went on an excellent adventure, did you?
1:12.6	I did.
	...

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