The director of the Iowa Egg Council describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. egg supply chain as “confusing” and “challenging.”
Kevin Stiles tells Brownfield coronavirus totally disrupted the market.
“We saw a significant increase in the purchase or eggs at retail, and of course soon after we saw sales at food service basically come close to drying up.”
The pandemic increased table egg retail and farmgate prices by 140 to 180 percent while at the same time dropping restaurant-style breaking stock egg prices by nearly 70 percent.