The shell-egg market in one screen.
The USDA national benchmark price, regional wholesale prices, the cage-free premium, weekly inventory against its five-year band, and a bird-flu tracker, pulled from the public record. One brief a week. No forecasts, no buy signals.
Data through Oct 6, 2026 · updated Oct 6, 2026
Latest issue · Oct 6, 2026
Benchmark Firms to 46 Cents on Moderate Retail Demand
The national large white benchmark firmed to 46 cents a dozen, up 7 cents on the week. Medium white national surged 60.5% to 35.6 cents. Midwest conventional inventory runs 20% above its five-year median.
Read the brief →Inventories vs the 5-yr band, tightest first
Inventory by region →The data
National board
The USDA national 5-day weighted benchmark: large white loose shell eggs (the free public benchmark), with every other size and color and the regional prices beside it, in cents per dozen.
1 pageNew York
New York wholesale prices for large white shell eggs by delivery basis, from USDA's weekly regional report. The other regions are in a table on the national benchmark page.
1 pageCage-free
The cage-free premium: national cage-free minus the conventional benchmark, plus California, where a state mandate makes the market effectively all cage-free.
2 pagesEgg products
Wholesale prices for processed egg: liquid, frozen and dried egg, in cents or dollars per pound. The downstream breaking market shell eggs are sold into, a related pressure indicator around the shell-egg benchmark.
1 pageInventory
Weekly shell egg inventory by region, in thousands of 30-dozen cases, against its five-year band and its four-week average. Below normal signals a tight, firming market.
1 pageCold storage
The national monthly stock of frozen egg product held in cold storage, in pounds, from USDA NASS. A supply-pipeline read one step downstream of the shell-egg market, reported as neutral context.
1 pageHPAI tracker
Commercial egg-layer flocks confirmed infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, by detection date, with the affected-bird counts APHIS publishes. The supply shock behind the biggest price moves.
1 pageRetail prices
What shoppers actually pay at the grocery register: the US average retail price for a dozen large eggs from BLS, the wholesale benchmark beside it on a different basis, and the eggs inflation rate.
1 pagePrice history
US egg prices back to 1950: the retail price monthly since 1980, nominal and adjusted into today's dollars, the farm-gate price from 1950, the largest historical increases, and a downloadable data file.
1 pageUS production
The supply side: how many laying hens are in the US, how many eggs they lay each month, the lay rate, and production by state, from USDA NASS.
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