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Much of the rise in prices has occurred in January and February. Seems likely to me that culling has continued due to bird flu and production has dropped.

I would also guess that demand is fairly constant for eggs, so large changes in price are needed to deter a small number of consumers from buying (low elasticity of demand).

"rebuilding" a laying flock is a fairly quick change, if the infrastructure is already there.




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