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I'm Lydia Who, and this is the Fox Business Rundown.

Monday, February 17th, 2025. This month marked a record high for the average price of eggs in the United States.

I have had an influx of restaurants and bakeries reaching out to us trying to fill their demand.

So I suppose even on their end,

they're having a difficult time. Eggs cost on average about $8 for a dozen. That's according to

data from Expana, which tracks benchmark egg prices daily. And the USDA warrants prices will continue to rise this year.

Eggs are getting more expensive because they are becoming harder to source.

Thanks to an outbreak of the bird flu that is wiping out millions of birds,

our nation's supply of laying hens is the lowest in 10 years.

The Trump administration says the Biden administration is to

blame for not stopping the circulation of the deadly strain of the bird flu, and a plan to combat

the bird flu is expected from the new secretary of the USDA. But in the meantime, major retailers like

Trader Joe's, Kroger, Whole Foods, and Costco are imposing

limits on the number of egg cartons shoppers can buy, as the nation's egg producers are finding

themselves confronting, but some are forecasting could become the worst bird flu outbreak

we've ever had in the history of this country.

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