As egg prices continue to soar in the United States, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday that the administration is considering “temporary import options to reduce egg costs in the short term.”
Rollins wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal explaining how her department will address the nationwide egg shortage and fend off the avian flu. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that the average price for a dozen eggs nationwide was $4.95 in January, but that number — which was already a 53% increase from the year before — is predicted to go up another 41% in 2025, according to a USDA report released on Tuesday.
The department said that in January alone over 18 million commercial egg layers were affected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). That was the highest monthly total since the beginning of the outbreak in 2022. Rollins said that…
