More than 40% of the nation's roughly 300 million egg-laying hens are raised in cage-free facilities, but roughly 60% of "bird flu" cases ... In California, white cage-free eggs were selling ...
“Bird flu is by far the biggest impactor affecting egg prices right now,” Bernt Nelson, an agricultural economist, told NBC News. “In the last couple of months alone, we’ve seen about 10 ...
Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season in the United States. But prices are still far from the recent peak ...
Many ground-nesting birds create little more than a scrape in the ground ... This shape is thought to prevent their eggs from rolling and potentially falling off the nest site. Many birds lay plain ...
Avian flu outbreaks in Utah, Washington state and Oregon last month resulted in the loss of 2.8 million birds and forced the USDA to reduce its egg production estimates for the end of 2024 and ...
DENVER (KMGH) – The egg section in some grocery stores are looking pretty empty. Many Colorado residents may be wondering whether the new cage-free law or an outbreak of bird flu is to blame.