{"id":22407,"date":"2023-01-06T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22407"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:12:04","slug":"economist-farmer-weigh-in-on-nationwide-increase-in-egg-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/economist-farmer-weigh-in-on-nationwide-increase-in-egg-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist, farmer weigh in on nationwide increase in egg prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the chicken or the egg? In the case of skyrocketing egg prices across the nation, it&#8217;s the chicken. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/upstate-farmer-weighs-in-on-egg-prices\/42412260\">WYFF News 4<\/a> spoke with Furman University&#8217;s Jason Jones, an economics professor, about why the price of eggs is so high. Jones said it&#8217;s a simple supply and demand issue. There are fewer chickens due to avian flu. Fewer chickens means fewer eggs, which translates to higher prices for eggs on grocery store shelves &#8211; about a 50% increase compared to food in general, which has seen a 12% increase over the last several months, Jones explained.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Steve Ellis of Bethel Trails Farm (Gray Court, South Carolina) says he hasn&#8217;t increased the price of his eggs in the last year. The free-range chickens on his farm are less susceptible to bird flu than chickens raised in larger facilities. He makes a case for buying local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Jason Jones says it&#8217;s a simple case of supply and demand that explains steep egg prices across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6,120],"tags":[1784,1785,1782,1781,1783],"class_list":["post-22407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-avian-flu","tag-bird-flu","tag-egg-prices","tag-free-range-chickens","tag-supply-and-demand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}