Because they’re an agricultural product, eggs are not uniform in size, shape, or quality. Eggs are classified into six ...

I can't do anything about it." Egg prices have skyrocketed over the last year, reaching historic highs, and wholesale shoppers like small businesses were paying over $8 for a dozen eggs last week.

Sixty percent of its menu includes eggs.Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times Supported by By Martha C. White “Making It Work” is a series about small-business owners striving to ...

Last November, Mike Trent, the owner of Trent Family Farms in Cloverdale, Oregon, started to notice that egg prices were going to get crazy. As the avian influenza crisis worsened among major egg ...

In effect, American farmers have put a lot more of their eggs in a relatively small number of baskets. VON MASSOW: If individual farms represent a larger proportion of production, then when an ...