The USDA’s forecast indicates that both consumer and producer prices will continue to rise in 2025, particularly for meat, ...

The surge in egg prices is the ongoing bird flu outbreak, which has decimated poultry stocks at farms across the country—more ...

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Economists predict that egg prices will surge more than 40% in 2025 as outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza continue to hinder the U.S. egg supply.

Consumers will find no relief from rising egg prices this year. That’s the most recent scenario from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recent forecast on overall food costs.

The USDA said it is promoting wiser government spending, but schools say it will make it tougher to serve healthy meals.

Retail egg prices rose nearly 14 percent in January 2025 and are 53 percent higher than in January of last year, the USDA’s Economic Research Service said in its February 2025 Food Price Outlook.