After a steady price rise for months and peaking at over $6.22 in March, the average price of a dozen large grade A eggs finally fell in April.
The average price for April was $5.12, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Egg prices had been rising on the BLS index since October, when the price was $3.37.
Some egg prices have also gone down to start off this month.
On May 2, the average national retail price for a dozen large white conventionally caged eggs was $3.99. By Friday, the price had dropped 17% to $3.30, according to the Agriculture Department.
“Considering that we were at record level prices just a couple of months ago, I think this is a pretty big move. We can’t say that it’ll necessarily stay this way, but for the near term, this is great,” American Farm Bureau Federation economist Bernt Nelson told USA Today.
Egg prices rose in recent years due to an outbreak of bird flu, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
So far in 2025, over 31 million egg-laying hens have been lost to bird flu and culls of affected flocks. The caged, uncaged and organic flocks were in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and South Dakota.
