The US Department of Agriculture (US Department of Agriculture) revealed a new plan to combat bird flu, which has created a severe shortage of eggs and caused the high prices of eggs in the United States.

A billion dollar plan includes financial aid for poultry farmers, as well as financing new research and vaccines. In the short term, the agency aims to increase egg imports to meet the demand.

“American farmers need relief, and American consumers need reasonable food,” said Trump Brock Rollins. “Every family is struggling to buy eggs: we hear you, we are fighting for you and helping the road.”

But how bad the egg crisis is the details of the Trump plan to reduce prices and when can consumers get comfort?

How much is eggs in the United States?

On average, about $ 4.95 for dozens.

This is absolutely high-nearly twice the price just one year ago, according to the work statistics office.

In some big cities, prices are higher, reaching $ 8 to $ 10 per scales in Chicago, New York and San Francisco.

The high prices have turned the main element of daily breakfast into leniency for many consumers. Some famous breakfast chains, such as Denny’s and Waffle House, have seized additional fees for egg dishes. “Simple egg sandwich is like luxury,” one of the shoppers in Chicago, John Harris, told Reuters.

Why are the prices very high?

The height is largely due to The height of H5N1 birds influenza Cases in American poultry farms. Since February 2022, the virus has invaded all fifty states and Portorico, as it reached more than 1,600 bombs, according to the service of examining animal and plant health in the US Department of Agriculture.

To prevent further spread, the entire herds are executed wherever viruses are discovered. More than 160 million birds were killed during the crisis, including 30 million birds this year, and they paralyze commercial farms Causing the main egg deficiency.

“If there are no birds to lay eggs … we will have a deficiency in the supply, and this leads to high prices due to the dynamics of supply and demand,” explained Jad Thomson, a poultry specialist at Arkansas University.

At the beginning of this year, the number of chickens in the United States reached 304 million, a 11 percent decrease from five years, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

What measures did former President Joe Biden take?

The Biden Administration spent about $ 1.5 billion to combat the spread of H5N1 after it appeared in 2022. Thus, I followed the long American government policy To store the numbers of the affected poultry through execution.

The decrease in the number of chickens caused an increase in egg prices steadily during the Biden period – from $ 1.60 per ten in February 2021 to $ 4.10 in December 2024. The price has since continued, reaching $ 4.95 this week.

In addition, Biden has allocated more than $ 600 million to prevent the virus from spreading to humans, including by monitoring diseases, treatment preparations and research in treatments, diagnoses and innovation of vaccines.

What is different from Trump’s plan?

While Trump administration officials blamed Biden for causing high egg prices due to integration policies, the US Department of Agriculture stated that it would continue in the same approach.

“There are no expected changes to the current closing policy at this time,” said Rosemary Seford, the chief veterinarian in the inspection of animal health and the factory at the US Department of Agriculture.

However, the agency announced a billion dollar package of egg deficiency processing plans of different angles.

In a press release on Wednesday, the US Department of Agriculture said it would spend $ 500 million to strengthen the vital security protocols for farms that protect poultry from hunting H5N1 from wild birds, and $ 400 million to pay the farmers who were executed. It also mentioned that it will invest $ 100 million to develop vaccines, treatments and new solutions to protect chicken from bird flu and reduce the need for their execution, as well as improve surveillance during the outbreak of the disease.

In addition, the US Department of Agriculture says it will discuss how to remove the exhausting industry lists that rise in prices, including for poultry guards in the backyard, and import more eggs.

Where can the United States get more eggs?

The United States produces the vast majority of eggs it consumes. But with local prices at all, he is now looking to import more.

There is a country to which it is turkiye, which expects 420 million eggs to be charged to the United States this year, more than six times from last year, according to the Central Federation of Turkish eggs.

However, this is a small part of the total demand for the United States, equivalent to less than half a hundred eggs of 109 billion eggs that they produced in the year that reaches November 2024, according to figures from the US Department of Agriculture.

The United States government did not specify other countries that hope to obtain more eggs, but historically received some imports from Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and China.

As of 2023, the Netherlands was the largest exporter of eggs in the world, as it sold more than a billion dollars of eggs abroad, mainly to Germany, according to the economic complexity observatory. Turkiye, with $ 441 million in exports, ranked fifth. Most of the egg exports were sent to the Gulf.

What industry experts say?

The Trump multi -sided plan has been received to address the egg crisis positively by industrial trade groups.

The United Nations Producers, who represent companies that produce more than 90 percent of American eggs, thanked Trump for “escalating to take action.”

“President Trump and US Agriculture Secretary Brock Rollins have shown their commitment to work alongside eggs in America in treating HPAI’s destruction [avian influenza] The president of the group, Chad Gregory, said in a joint statement on X.

UEP Thank you President Trump and Minister Rollins for their commitment to combating the devastating effects of the fluid -causing birds #hpai On us #EGGFARMERS With this historical investment of $ 1 billion.

Read our statement on this important initiative. USDA Securlins pic.twitter.com/hgb4tvsole

United Producers (UEP) (UNITEDEGPROD) February 26, 2025

However, some experts are pushing for a faster offering of chicken vaccines, which currently take time for time to manage the entire poultry market and unintentionally risk it. This is because some foreign buyers do not take poultry from countries that are vaccinated against H5N1, for fear that the vaccine may simply hide the spread of the virus.

“It seems to me that we will have to start using vaccines if we want to start putting this fire,” said Gregory Gray, a professor of the University of Texas.

Will the prices of eggs decrease or continue to rise?

Egg prices in the US Department of Agriculture will increase by 41 percent this year.

However, Rollins believes that within a year or two, prices will return to $ 1.30 to $ 2 per scales that were observed during the first period of Trump from 2017 to 2021.

At a press conference on February 24, she said, “The summary of the consumers … is that we will be reconciled.

“We cut our work for us,” she confessed.