TheEgg Industry Center, which is hosted by Iowa State University, prepares monthlycost estimates and analysis for the U.S. egg industry. These analyses alsoproject future wholesale egg prices based on USDA data for hen inventories,replacement chick hatching data, and historical egg price information. MaroIbarburu, business analyst, Iowa State University, released a special report onMay 8, 2015, to address the question posed by numerous individuals and groups,including Egg Industry magazine, “Whatimpact will hen losses resulting from the avian influenza outbreak have on U.S.whole sale egg prices?”