BIRD FLU EFFECTS: Cost of 'breaker' eggs — liquidized eggs sold to restaurants and packaged-food producers — nearly tripled in May.
. When the flu hits, some birds die and others must be euthanized. That reduces the supply of eggs, a commodity for which there are few substitutes, he explained.
Meantime, shoppers are paying about 5% more for whole chickens than a year ago, making poultry a relative bargain given grocery prices overall are 10% higher and the price of beef is up 16%, federal data "The chicken and the eggs are just the beginning of the ripple effect," Liang said."The downstream industries are the ones absorbing the higher costs.
Back when the avian flu outbreak had affected 24 states and some 24 million commercial birds, only eight cases had been confirmed in commercial broiler chickens. More than 60% of U.S. broiler production occurs in six states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas. So far, just North Carolina and Texas have had outbreaks.
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