Overview
- Producer prices plunged over the past year, with white-egg farmgate prices falling from 32.81 to 20.74 pesos per kilogram and red eggs from 35.19 to 26.27 pesos per kilogram, according to GCMA data for May 2026.
- Retail prices have fallen unevenly and much less, with monitored autoservicios showing roughly a 2% drop for unbranded white eggs and about an 8% drop for red eggs, leaving most supermarket shoppers with little relief.
- Analysts and GCMA attribute the surplus to a larger cohort of pullets entering lay, favorable weather, the absence of major avian influenza this cycle, and reduced export outlets because of high U.S. production.
- Major producing state Jalisco has increased shipments to central and southern markets to place excess stock, intensifying local competition and deepening price pressure in those regions.
- Specialists say persistent costs for transport, storage, distribution and intermediary margins explain weak price transmission to consumers, and the current squeeze could prompt producers to cut output, consolidate, or seek renewed export channels.