data from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 python and matplotlib code is here https://gist.github.com/cavedave/81046a6c94b7ce899ee22af9f36faa86

Last year is

observation_date APU0000708111
531 2024-04-01 2.864
532 2024-05-01 2.699
533 2024-06-01 2.715
534 2024-07-01 3.080
535 2024-08-01 3.204
536 2024-09-01 3.821
537 2024-10-01 3.370
538 2024-11-01 3.649
539 2024-12-01 4.146
540 2025-01-01 4.953
541 2025-02-01 5.897
542 2025-03-01 6.227

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27 comments

  2. That’s so odd, I had people on here a month or so ago telling me repeatedly that eggs were a lot cheaper now, yelling at me about “egg futures are way down, you idiot” while I said I saw no changes in the price paid by consumers.

  4. I don’t eat eggs, but I live in Canada.

    I thought Trump said Egg prices have gone down? (not questioning your data by the way), ….and it’s much easier to believe information coming from a Redditor I don’t know, than a habitual lying conman:)

  5. The things that pisses me off about the eggs is that eventually the bird flu will go away and we’ll get more chickens and prices will come down. But Trump will get credit for it even though he didn’t do anything.

  7. How about you don’t manipulate the post and show current pricing.

  9. here is some fresh data. egg prices according to USDA have almost returned to 2023 values

    [https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3725.pdf](https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3725.pdf)

    They are not cheaper they are still more expensive than before, using 2023 as the “before” baseline. of course, inflation will do that

  10. I was literally just at the store this afternoon and a dozen eggs was $3 and some change. How old is this data and from where?

  11. Will you be posting the updated chart when April data comes out?

  12. FWIW: Just got organic humane certified eggs, 24 pack, for $8 here in the south east at a chain store.

  15. this is just wrong. the prices have been down for a while

  16. Look how steady the 90s were compared to the wild fluctuations after 2005. Life really was less of a rollercoaster back then.

  17. Egg prices are still at record highs. You’re looking at wholesale data, which is meaningless.

  18. Retail prices are still sky high. [This NYT articles digs](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/egg-prices-march.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) into the disconnect between wholesale and retail egg prices. (Published April 10)

    “For weeks, President Trump has repeatedly boasted that his administration had managed to bring egg prices down. But new data on [April 10] showed that egg prices at the grocery store continued to climb in March.

    Egg prices rose 5.9 percent over the month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They climbed at a slower rate, though, after rising 10.4 percent in February and 15.2 percent in January.

    Compared with a year earlier, egg prices are up 60.4 percent.

    Egg prices have reached record highs in recent months as bird flu outbreaks have hit poultry farms and forced producers to cull tens of millions of hens. But Mr. Trump, who had vowed to bring down grocery prices while on the campaign trail, has continued to claim victory on egg prices. This month, Mr. Trump said that egg prices had dropped 59 percent, and on Monday, he said that egg prices were down 79 percent.

    Consumers might not be feeling relief because the president is not referring to retail egg prices. He is instead pointing to the wholesale price of eggs, which has fallen by roughly half since the beginning of his second term.”

    “Wholesale egg prices dropped from a national average of $6.55 a dozen on Jan. 24 to $3.26 on April 4, according to data from the Agriculture Department. Wholesale egg prices are also down from a peak of more than $8 a dozen at the end of February.

    But the average retail price for a dozen large eggs reached $6.23 in March, up from $5.90 the month before, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.”

    It could take several weeks for the decrease in wholesale prices to pass through to retail prices, said David Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University. “All indications are that there’s some relief coming for consumers,” he said. “Even then, there are a lot of other factors that determine the price of eggs.”

  19. Outdated data in an excel graph. Thank you for your “beautiful” contribution

  20. It’s meaningless. Only stock market data can trigger actual policy changes.

  21. I can literally get eggs for 3.50 an 18 pack which is cheap as shit for Oklahoma so I don’t know where the fuck this data is coming from.

  23. I should’ve invested in eggs instead of investing in the S&P.

  24. can we ban users that post stale data with alterior motives?

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