Breakfast connoisseurs and Easter enthusiasts may be surprised by the rising price of eggs this spring.
They might be even more surprised to learn that they should be paying much more. It turns out that most grocery stores lose money on every dozen eggs they sell.
A survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation found that on average egg prices are 37 percent higher than this time last year, at $1.80 per dozen. That’s a swing from 2017 when the survey found that egg prices had gone down 41 percent from spring 2016, to $1.32 per dozen.
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