US EGG PRICES
December 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIE
EGG prices in the United States are currently at a 20-year high, with some bakers associations claiming the wholesale price in some states has doubled in less than a year. Agricultural economists blame the lack of supply due to disease outbreaks in California, which saw thousands of egg-laying hens being destroyed. Average US prices rose from US1.03 to US$1.33 a dozen, October-to-October.
EGG prices in the United States are currently at a 20-year high, with some bakers associations claiming the wholesale price in some states has doubled in less than a year. Agricultural economists blame the lack of supply due to disease outbreaks in California, which saw thousands of egg-laying hens being destroyed. Average US prices rose from US1.03 to US$1.33 a dozen, October-to-October.
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