Egg prices continued to increase in March

For weeks, President Trump has boasted several times that his administration had managed to reduce egg prices. But new data on Thursday showed that egg prices at the grocery store continued to climb in March.

Egg prices increased by 5.9% during the month, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They climbed at a slower pace, after having increased by 10.4% in February and 15.2% in January.

Compared to a year earlier, egg prices increased by 60.4%.

Egg prices have reached record heights in recent months, because the epidemics of the bird flu has hit the poultry farms and forced producers to reduce tens of millions of hens. But Mr. Trump, who had promised to lower the prices of the grocery store during the campaign track, continued to win the egg prizes. This month, Trump said that egg prices fell 59% and on Monday, he said that egg prices fell 79%.

Consumers may not feel relief because the president does not refer to the prices of retail eggs. Rather, he points to the wholesale price of eggs, which has dropped about half since the start of his second term.

The prices of wholesale eggs fell from a national average of $ 6.55 a dozen on January 24 to $ 3.26 on April 4, according to data from the Department of Agriculture. The prices of wholesale eggs are also down compared to a peak of more than $ 8 in the dozen at the end of February.

But the average retail price of a dozen important eggs reached $ 6.23 in March, against $ 5.90 in the previous month, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.