Trump's Bold Plan: Boost Egg Imports To Reverse Biden's Bird Flu Blunder That Tanked Nation's Hen Population

The Trump administration is planning a significant increase in US egg imports to counter the Biden-Harris administration's questionable handling of the avian flu crisis. The previous administration's approach—mass culling of tens of millions of birds at commercial broilers with little consideration for the marketplace—has led to record-high egg prices. Ramping up egg imports temporarily should help alleviate sky-high prices.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump told top officials at a Cabinet meeting that "Eggs are a disaster," adding, "We have to get the prices down, get the inflation down, the prices of eggs and various other things."

To do this, the US Department of Agriculture will import between 70 million and 100 million eggs over the next two months in an effort to cap egg prices. This initiative is part of a five-part plan, backed by $1 billion in funding, aimed at addressing the bird flu crisis and fixing the Biden administration's mass culling policies of these hens at commercial broilers that ignited prices at the supermarket.

Millions of birds at commercial broilers have been mass-culled as the nation's egg-laying laying hen population fell to its lowest level since 2016 last month.

One very questionable policy under the previous administration was the mass culling of egg-laying hens at commercial broilers without any countermeasure to offset plunging output. It almost seemed as if the administration intended for egg prices to skyrocket. Now, Trump is cleaning up the mess by boosting egg imports while implementing new domestic policies to contain the biosecurity threat.

Monday's print of the Urner Barry Egg Index EBP shows wholesale prices jumped to $7.59, a new record high. Since late Decemeber, wholesale prices have jumped to new record highs by the week, with reports of egg shortages nationwide.

According to the USDA's bird flu dashboard, 19 million birds across the Lower 48 have been infected by avian influenza over the last 30 days.

Dr. Robert Malone questioned Biden's bird flu approach, noting earlier this week:

The key question everyone must ask is: Why was the Biden-Harris administration laser-focused on culling and decimating the egg-laying hen population nationwide, with no countermeasures to prevent egg price inflation? A war on food?

Most likely...

This is deeply concerning—another reason readers should take control of their own food supply chains rather than relying on globalist mega-corporations.

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$5.97 / dozen at Aldi today. Limit, two dozen per customer.

Preferred brand still not available. What I bought was $8 per dozen.

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The key question everyone must ask is: Why was the Biden-Harris administration laser-focused on culling and decimating the egg-laying hen population nationwide, with no countermeasures to prevent egg price inflation? A war on food?

There is an even more key question. Why are we 100% culling hens for a disease that doesn't have a 100% mortality rate instead of breeding the survivors to improve the nation's hen genetics? Joel Salatin (author, speaker, and thorn in USDA's side) asked that question a month or so ago and it really stuck with me.

I Googled around on the topic and couldn't find a recent mortality rate that excludes culling. I did however find a 11 year old mortality rate for H5N1 (i.e. same strain) and mortality rate was 11.11% with a sample size of nearly a million hens .

My local source just raised her price to $5.00 a dozen, which I think is still pretty good.

Costco had 24 Free Range Organic Grade A medium brown eggs was $8.30ish, no limit.

I’ve been picking up a dozen eggs lately on my way home from work at my dad‘s house, he’s had backyard chickens for about two years now. Price is perfect at $0.00 a dozen. I offered to give him something to help cover his costs, but he doesn’t want to take anything of course.

Wife does her food shopping on Fridays and told me that a dozen eggs at Aldi is now $8.00 a dozen They USED to be $0.89 to $1.20 a dozen there forever.

At that price, we will pass and just make do with other foods or continue to get them from my Dad as much as we can.

Laying pellets cost me about $10-$12 a week. I get 3 dozen a week usually. That doesn’t factor in replacing hens on a yearly basis or building their lots and runs. But once you get that stuff done, they’re not expensive or hard to keep up.

We currently have 8 hens and have 8-10 more ordered for next month. Once they don’t lay anymore, we still keep them as pets until they die. My wife loves her chickens.

Just came in from the quail shed. It costs $0.03/day to feed each bird. They lay an egg a day. 3 quail eggs = 1 chicken egg. So... if I did the math right, it costs $1.08 for a chicken dozen equivalent. (Quail eggs taste better though.)

Today at Aldis in St. Louis MO:

Just bought a 2 dozen pack of organic eggs for $8.64 at Costco. Not bad considering.