Name: US faces egg shortage ahead of 2025
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We turn now to the egg shortage with six days until Thanksgiving.

Elizabeth Schulze joins us with those details, and this is not what you want to hear six days before Thanksgiving.

Definitely not what you want to see when you are stocking up the fridge ahead of the holidays.

And the average price we see now for a dozen eggs, $3.37.

That is up 30% from one year ago when prices were about $2.

If you go back five years ago, we were averaging $1.28.

And the key culprit behind these higher prices and shortages on some store shelves is bird flu, which typically does spread quickly during the fall when birds are migrating.

The Department of Agriculture expects that an increase in bird flu cases will continue to dent egg supply and keep prices high going into next year.

Production already dipped 2.6% in October compared to one year ago.

But keep in mind, egg prices are up more than any other food group over the past year.

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