Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that egg prices dropped by an average of $1.85 in the two weeks since she announced a plan to combat avian influenza and other measures to bring down prices.

“A good piece of good news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of a dozen eggs has gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago,” she told reporters.

On Feb. 26, Rollins announced a $1 billion investment in “long-term solutions to avian flu, which has resulted in about 166 million laying hens being culled since 2022.” The first step in her five-pronged plan was to allocate up to $500 million to aid U.S. poultry producers in implementing gold-standard biosecurity measures.

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