01-27-25 YMS The high cost of eggs may be here to stay. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will crack the story and explain.

The high cost of eggs may be here to stay. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will crack the story and explain.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael til Choono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, I like to have an omelet in the morning.
I could do my pat and a daddy style cheesy omelet.
High cost of eggs apparently, no matter what this new
administration does, high cost of eggs is here to stay.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Roy O'Neil has that story. Good morning, Rory. Hey there, Michael,
good morning. Yeah, and blame mostly the bird flu.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
This is a particularly virulent strain that's been around for
a couple of years now. Twenty six million egg laying
hens have been called just since October.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's how bad this is. Wow, that's a lot of
eggs off the market.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
It is, which is why store shelves you will often
find are empty. There are no eggs available, and if
they are, they're pretty darn pricey. In December, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics has a dozen large grade A large
eggs cost four point fifteen a dozen two fifty one
a year before, and even the wholesale prices are worse, and.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Bacon is not much cheaper. What I wonder with the
average cost of bacon, eggs and toast is right now?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, No, I mean, it's all of it. It has
gone much much higher. The price you pay for it.
By the way, if you're to go to a pancake
house also significantly more expensive as they struggle to try
to absorb these costs, but a lot of places are
forced to just pass on the higher cost of staples
like eggs, and you know, look, we just went through
baking season, right, so there's a little bit of a lull,

(01:37):
not as much as in the summertime, but demand is
off a little bit. But then it's all going to
ramp up again going into Easter, so there may not
be any relief until late April, maybe May.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was just gonna I was just going to ask you, Yeah,
how long do we think this will be?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And it's going to be it's gonna be months.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
And of course it's an ingredient item too, so this
could have an effect on baked goods everything.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Wow, all right, he's coming back in the third hour.
We're going to talk about that hostage exchange.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del
Cherno