Local Egg Company in the National News

Cal-Maine Foods, which operates a number of chicken houses in the Flatonia area (but has dozens of locations around the country) was a recent subject of a Wall Street Journal article entitled: “There’s a National Egg Crisis, and One Company Is Making a Lot of Money: The price of eggs has tripled, and no one sells more of them than Cal-Maine” The story states, “Its 50 million hens produce roughly one out of every five eggs sold in the U.S. As egg prices have tripled in three years during a nationwide bird-flu epidemic, its stock has doubled. That makes it public enemy No. 1 for lawmakers and regulators trying to restrain the forces of food inflation.” ...

“Someone has to get blamed for everything. They’re looking for a villain,” Chief Executive Sherman Miller says in an interview, egg statues near his desk and an American flag draped above the computer. But, he adds, “We don’t control the power to lower egg prices.”