To help solve its egg price crisis, America is turning to Turkey (the country) | CNN Business

New York CNN  — 

America’s egg shortage has led US businesses to turn to Turkey. Not the bird, the country.

Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the United States this year, the most ever, according to the Egg Producers Central Union in Turkey.

The ramped-up exports come as avian flu has killed more than 140 million egg-laying birds in the United States since 2022, and 17 million alone in November and December. Fewer birds means fewer eggs — and higher prices.

“Bird flu is the main reason of increasing export capacity,”

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