As the price of eggs It reaches the highest level in the recordBrock told. Rollins, Minister of Agriculture, on Wednesday, that the federal government is looking to import more eggs from other countries.
Mrs. Rollins, in an interview with Fox Business, said that the United States is in talks with many countries to secure instant egg imports as a short -term solution. In addition to importing eggs, the administration will invest up to one billion dollars in its five -way approach to combating bird flu, as Mrs. Rollins wrote in An editorial was published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
This includes saving up to 500 million dollars in financing for egg producers to enhance biological security measures, $ 400 million in financial relief for farmers whose herds are affected by influenza and $ 100 million in research and development for vaccines and treatment. The Ministry of Agriculture has not yet declared a poultry vaccine, partly because of Fears that vaccination will display American exports.
Mrs. Rollins wrote, referring to a Animal Care Law in California This was the legal goal of business groups.
While Mrs. Rollins did not specify the countries that will provide egg imports, it should be noted CanadaThe goal of President Trump’s commercial policies is the largest source of eggs imported to the United States. Recently the Central Federation of Egg Producers in Türkiye Declare It will be issued around it 420 million Eggs to the United States. This is less than 5 percent of the total amount of eggs, about 8.8 billion, produced in the United States in January The latest estimate From the Ministry of Agriculture.
Mrs. Rollins said that consumers expect that egg prices will continue to rise in the weeks before Easter, as the demand usually increases, but the cost of eggs “we hope will decrease by summer.
