Now might be the time to try out that new cake recipe or start cooking omelets for breakfast every morning: Egg prices in the Richmond area, and across the country, are at the lowest in a decade.
The average price for a dozen Grade A large eggs in the Richmond region was 76 cents in June, down 12.4 cents from May and down 67.6 cents from June 2016, according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ monthly Market Basket survey of supermarkets.
The lower prices are a reversal from two years ago, when egg prices locally and nationally skyrocketed to nearly $3 a dozen as an avian influenza, or bird flu, forced farmers to destroy millions of birds.
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