Egg prices in Colorado and across the nation remain stubbornly high.
If you鈥檝e been grocery shopping lately, it won't come as a surprise that the shot up 40 percent over the last year.
Some experts have blamed outbreaks of avian flu, which forced farmers to cull millions of chickens and turkeys across the country. And while that is certainly one factor, a Colorado professor says that the systems we use to produce and deliver eggs are actually the root of the problem.
teaches supply chain management at the . In a , he wrote that those high egg prices are an avoidable problem 鈥� but fixing it will require the U.S. to think differently about egg production.
He spoke with Erin O鈥橳oole about why we鈥檙e seeing cracks in the U.S. egg supply chain 鈥� and what a more resilient system might look like.
