U.S. egg prices have finally dropped, but record highs aren’t over that easy [Video]

If you had asked us this time last year whether we’d be breathlessly awaiting the latest report on U.S. egg prices, well, we might have said you’d cracked.

Yet here we are, in 2025, where the cost of an omelette has become not just an overall marker of the U.S. economy, but a symbol of frustration over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies. On the social media platform X, for instance, a popular account has asked the same question every single day since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20: “Has Trump lowered the cost of eggs?”

And every day, the same answer: “no.” (Sometimes, “nah”  or, “nope.)”

But now, we breathlessly await today’s post (could it be, “Kind of?” “Marginally? “Yep?”), because after months of record-high prices that have left retailers and businesses scrambling, the cost of eggs in the U.S. has finally dropped — relatively speaking.

The average price for a dozen Grade A eggs dropped 12.7 per cent to $5.12 US ($7.17 Cdn) in April, according …