The Trump administration is importing tens of millions of eggs from Turkey and South Korea, with different nations more likely to be contributing within the coming weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins mentioned Friday.
“Right now, we’ve got Turkey and South Korea importing eggs. Just yesterday, I talked to a couple of other countries that will soon begin importing. We haven’t signed that deal yet, so I don’t want to say who it is,” Rollins informed reporters on the White Home.
“We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term. So not insignificant, but significant enough to help continue to bring the prices down for right now,” she continued. “And then when our chicken populations are repopulated, and we’ve got a full egg-laying industry going again, hopefully in a couple of months, we then shift back to our internal egg-layers and moving those eggs out onto the shelf.”
The Trump administration has been working to rein in egg costs, which skyrocketed in current months amid issues concerning the unfold of avian flu. Issues concerning the virus pressured farmers to slaughter tens of millions of chickens, resulting in a scarcity of eggs and a spike in costs.
A projection from the Division of Agriculture printed final month signaled that egg costs might improve 41 p.c in 2025.
