The economics of supply and demand continue to ripple through egg prices. The ongoing avian flu outbreak has forced farmers to euthanize millions of egg-laying hens in an effort to stop the spread of ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Arlyn Kauffman, whose hens produce eggs on his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. Robert ...

A mericans are eating more chicken as enthusiasm for protein picks up and beef price stays high. The trend has boosted companies that range from meatpackers to chicken restaurants. But investors ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Egg prices have been on the rise lately, jumping by more than 15% in just the past month due to a bird flu outbreak that’s taken a big chunk out of egg supplies across the ...

ST PAUL, Minn — The question is not the ancient paradox of what came first the chicken or the egg — rather it's a question of cost. Why are egg prices rising so much while the cost of chicken meat isn ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota -- Poultry producers and scientists have been hoping warmer weather would knock down a virulent strain of bird flu that has hammered the Midwest, but the virus recently took its ...

The agriculture and food security ministry said surveys found that Grade A, B and C egg supplies remain stable and available in supermarkets. The local production of chicken eggs is now exceeding ...

When Corey Leird refers to his “girls,” it is important to clarify if he is talking about his wife, Racheal, and their two daughters Mayley and Mabel, or the hundreds of pullets he is raising in his ...

Arlyn Kauffman, whose hens produce eggs on his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. Robert Leonard Arlyn Kauffman was grinding feed for 20,000 layer hens when we pulled up to his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. ...