{"id":5353,"date":"2025-05-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=5353"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:18:00","slug":"cracks-in-the-system-why-u-s-egg-prices-wont-drop-until-poultry-farming-changes","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/publications\/cracks-in-the-system-why-u-s-egg-prices-wont-drop-until-poultry-farming-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracks in the System: Why U.S. Egg Prices Won\u2019t Drop Until Poultry Farming Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"normal_content bg-white padding-top-small padding-bottom-large\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row center-md\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-styled\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomorrow, May 13th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release an update on the Consumer Price Index for April. The data is expected to include an announcement about the retail price of eggs, which has been a focal point of national discussion about inflation, food, and tariffs. Even before the April figures were released, President Trump has claimed victory, saying that the price of eggs is falling and\u00a0 \u201cavailability is fantastic.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But while retail prices are expected to fall in April compared to March, there are many reasons to believe that this trend represents only a seasonal cyclical decline \u2014 and that higher egg prices are here to stay unless federal agriculture regulators finally start getting serious about reforming our broken and unhealthy food systems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This issue brief has two main findings:<\/p>\n<p>1. Despite a recent dip, egg prices will likely remain high as long as federal regulators fail to respond to the ongoing bird flu pandemic; and<\/p>\n<p>2. Evidence from Canada suggests that farm size and intensification contributes to pandemic risk.<\/p>\n<a class='btn' href='https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cracks-in-the-System-Why-US-Egg-Prices-Wont-Drop-Until-Poultry-Farming-Changes-5.12.2025.docx-7.pdf' target='_self'>Read the issue brief<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5348,"template":"","publication-category":[16,50,49],"class_list":["post-5353","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-category-consumer-advocacy","publication-category-farming","publication-category-legislation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-category?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}