Egg shortages force some grocery stores to impose limits

With eggs successful abbreviated supply, immoderate retailers astir the state are putting limits connected the fig of cartons customers tin bargain astatine 1 time. 

The discount market store Lidl told a New York quality outlet that definite brands of eggs sold astatine its stores are constricted to 2 twelve per customer. 

"Specialty egg brands, including cage-free, free-range and organic, bash not person limitations astatine this clip astatine Lidl US," Lidl told News 12. 

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Some customers successful parts of Massachusetts were besides taxable to a two-carton limit, arsenic Reddit users shared connected a connection committee successful precocious January.

The egg shortages are apt to proceed sporadically into the future, Emily Metz, president and CEO of the American Egg Board, told Fox News Digital.

Customers astir the state person reported that eggs are successful abbreviated supply, and immoderate retailers person imposed limits connected purchases.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The main culprit is the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak, she said. 

"Affordable nutrient matters to everyone, and portion farmers are doing everything they tin to support costs down, it's important to cognize that ovum farmers are terms takers, not terms makers," she said. 

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Metz continued, "The volatility we've been seeing successful ovum prices reflects galore factors, astir of which are extracurricular the power of an ovum farmer. Eggs are sold connected markets arsenic commodities, similar maize and wheat, and wholesale prices for eggs are driven mostly by proviso and demand." 

"Egg farmers are terms takers, not terms makers," the president and CEO of the American Egg Board told Fox News Digital. (Fox News Digital)

There are nary treatments oregon vaccinations for vertebrate flu, Metz said, and full flocks are culled erstwhile it is detected. 

"In the U.S. we've mislaid astir 50 cardinal laying hens successful the past twelvemonth to vertebrate flu – and much than 14 cardinal birds successful conscionable the past 4 weeks," she said. 

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Egg production, Metz said, is "both analyzable and clip sensitive." 

"While we can't foretell the future, what we cognize close present is that our strategy is strained – and HPAI remains a clear-and-present hazard to poultry flocks," she said. 

"It's going to instrumentality a sustained play with nary further HPAI detections connected ovum farms to stabilize supply." 

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These shortages, however, volition apt not past precise agelong successful antithetic parts of the country.

"We expect immoderate shortages to beryllium localized and short-lived."

"The bully quality is that ovum farmers person a batch of acquisition moving unneurotic to determination eggs crossed the state to wherever they're needed astir – and that's precisely what they're doing now," she said. 

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"We recognize however frustrating it is erstwhile eggs are not disposable connected a buying trip, and we expect immoderate shortages to beryllium localized and short-lived arsenic ovum farmers enactment with their retail customers to replenish those stocks." 

Grocery stores are "being restocked with caller eggs often wrong 24 hours." (iStock)

Eggs, she said, are delivered often to market stores – and bare cases "are being restocked with fresh eggs often wrong 24 hours." 

"Egg farmers profoundly admit everyone's patience and knowing successful these highly challenging circumstances," Metz said.

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"Keeping their birds harmless and steadfast is each ovum farmer's apical priority, and they are moving astir the timepiece to support their birds, replenish proviso and support those eggs coming."