The USDA over the weekend fired many employees some of whom were on the front lines of fighting the avian flu outbreak now they’re scrambling to hire them back,” said Senat

The average cost of a dozen large Grade A eggs was $4.95 for customers last month, beating the last record set in 2023 by 13 cents. For retailers, wholesale egg prices also reached an all-time high in February at $7.86, according to economic data platform Trading Economics.

Turkey has begun exporting around 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the United States as a devastating outbreak of bird flu is slashing U.S. production and sending prices soaring, a leading sector official said on Wednesday.