Egg prices fell for the first time in months. Will they get any cheaper?

Rachel Barber, USA TODAY

Tue, May 13, 2025, 4:22 PM 4 min read

U.S. ovum prices fell successful April for the archetypal clip successful months but stay precocious as a twelve Grade A eggs are inactive moving consumers $5.12 connected average.

The wide outgo of eggs dropped 12.7% past month, according to the Labor Department’s user terms index. The driblet represents the archetypal month-to-month diminution since October 2024. The bid of terms hikes implicit the past fewer months were related to the long-standing vertebrate flu outbreak that impacted American poultry farms and egg-laying hens. The mean terms for a twelve Grade A eggs deed a grounds $6.23 successful March.

"Considering that we were astatine grounds level prices conscionable a mates of months ago, I deliberation this is simply a beauteous large move," said Bernt Nelson, an economist astatine the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We can't accidental that it'll needfully enactment this way, but for the adjacent term, this is great."

Nelson attributes overmuch of the terms alteration owed to farmers' collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to instrumentality biosecurity, oregon measures taken to forestall the dispersed of vertebrate flu, astatine their farms.

Eylem Senyuz, a elder concern strategy expert astatine Truist said prices are down besides due to the fact that U.S. sellers are importing a higher fig of eggs. Declining costs for vigor and provender needed to vigor and attraction for chickens besides lend to the decline, helium said.

Changes successful user behaviour tin besides person an effect connected prices. If a twelve eggs costs $6 and you're utilized to paying $2, you whitethorn halt buying eggs each together, resulting successful little request and yet little prices, Senyuz said.

White House spokesperson Kush Desai celebrated the diminution successful a connection Tuesday touting other quality from the CPI report which besides showed cooling inflation.

“The CPI study shows that the American radical are experiencing existent economical relief: grocery, gas, and ovum prices are down, portion existent wages are up," Desai said. "President Trump’s America First policies created a historical system successful his archetypal term, and he’s laying the groundwork to repetition the occurrence successful his 2nd term.”

But are little ovum prices impermanent oregon are they going to stick?

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In April, the USDA inactive anticipated a important emergence successful ovum prices this year, predicting an summation arsenic precocious arsenic 54.6% successful 2025.

Nelson said the USDA's prediction is partially based connected an presumption that farmers volition proceed to conflict with vertebrate flu.

However, "If things enactment calm similar they are now, we person a comparatively debased lawsuit load and that stronger biosecurity does its occupation and starts showing immoderate success, we mightiness spot ovum prices enactment down," helium said.