Because as egg producers began to replenish the supply – a little too eagerly – after the avian flu through 2016 and the first half of 2017, downward pressure was placed on egg prices, resulting in the low cost you are now seeing in the grocery store.

A glut of eggs is putting pressure on suppliers and farmers who are struggling to win back business two years after the worst bout of avian influenza in U.S. history devastated the egg-laying flock.