U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that President Donald Trump and his administration are planning a strategy to combat soaring egg prices.
“In many of his interviews and many of his campaign stops, he talked about what happened under Joe Biden and the inflation rates and what that has done to moms who are trying to buy groceries. I am a mom of four teenagers. I feel this like everybody else does,” Rollins told Breitbart. “It’s really imperative to me and it’s very top of the list to work as very hard as I can to help the president effectuate his vision on this issue of food prices, and specifically with eggs.”
She explained that one of her first briefings in her role pertained to avian flu and egg prices, noting that the USDA has floated biosecurity measures to address the matter.
“There are some successful models out there that the USDA is implementing on a much smaller scale. Maybe with all of the cancellation of DEI programs, and we can talk about DOGE too, but identifying additional funding for our farmers to be able to protect against the avian flu is really important in terms of biosecurity measures,” Rollins said. “There are other countries in the world that use vaccines for their egg-layers that have none of these issues. That’s a complicated solution because there are some trade implications that have to be considered. But listen, when Canada’s price of eggs is much lower than ours and they’re using that approach, that’s something we need to take a very strong look at.”
When asked by reporters how he planned to address egg prices, Trump said, “Well, there’s a flu. Before I got here, it was already at an all-time high.”
“I’ve been here for three weeks. I have had nothing to do with inflation. This was caused by Biden. I had four years of virtually no inflation. So I’m just taking over,” he said. “But I’ll tell you what, this country has made more progress in the last three weeks than it’s made in the last four years, and we’re respected again as a country.”
The USDA’s Egg Markets Overview report released on February 14 noted that “White Large shell eggs increased $0.40 to $7.74 per dozen with a higher undertone.”
The wholesale price on the New York market for formula trading of Large cartoned shell eggs delivered to retailers rose $0.28 to $8.23 per dozen with a firm undertone. In the major Midwest production region, wholesale prices for Large, white, shell eggs delivered to warehouses increased $0.34 to $7.81 per dozen with a firm undertone while prices paid to producers for Large cartoned shell eggs increased $0.39 to $7.64 per dozen,” the report said.
In California, the wholesale price for a dozen eggs reached as high as $9.17 per dozen.
