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 Aug 19, 2026 · updated Aug 21, 2026
Latest issue · Aug 11, 2026
Benchmark Retreats to 91.4 Cents, Extra Large White Off 19% on the Week
The large white benchmark fell to 91.4 cents/doz, down 12.5% from 104 cents. Regional inventories are above normal across the Midwest, Northeast and South Central. Cage-free at 88.1 cents remains inverted, trading 3.3 cents below the conventional benchmark.
Read the brief →Inventories vs the 5-yr band, tightest first
All inventories →The data
National board
The USDA national 5-day weighted benchmark: large white loose shell eggs (the free public benchmark), plus the other sizes and brown eggs, in cents per dozen, week over week and year over year.
7 pagesRegions
Regional wholesale prices for large white shell eggs, from the farm gate (producer FOB) to the warehouse to the store door, across the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, South Central, New York and California.
5 pagesCage-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.
7 pagesInventory
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.
7 pagesCold 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.
4 pagesRetail features
How hard grocery stores are advertising eggs each week: the number of stores featuring a given egg, a demand-side signal, with the advertised carton price alongside.
4 pagesHPAI 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 retail egg prices back to 1980, nominal and adjusted into today's dollars, with 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.
1 pageWhy prices are moving
Why egg prices are rising or falling right now, updated every week the data moves.
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