Egg Price Relief Expected as Recent Highs Soften Demand
- Prices for a Midwest dozen soared to historic high last month
- Bird flu destablized supply chains, causing some egg shortages
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Relief from skyrocketing egg prices is coming even as consumers in some parts of the country still see shortages as a lingering effect of an historic avian flu outbreak.
Midwest large eggs, the commodity’s benchmark price, fell to $4.63 a dozen on Friday, according to commodity researcher Urner Barry. That’s down from a record high of $5.46 a dozen in December.