January 23, 2023· 41 min

What The Heck Is Happening With the Price of Eggs?

Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,500 words)
M:94%
HostTracy Alloway(1,580 words)
M:94%
GuestGlenn Hickman(3,612 words)
M:93%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic19%
literally, completely, terrible
Engagement84%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
know (102x), like (61x), it's (52x)
Parallelism86%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But Sure...., Or should I say yolks?...
Sound Patterns80%
62 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
maybe, relatively, probably
Passive Voice8%
are demanded, are produced, is walked
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, recommendation, inflation
Subordination8%
because, although, while
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style16%
649 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style88%
literally, completely, preferably

Description

The price of eggs rose 60% in 2022, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Meanwhile, wholesale egg prices are up 300% in the last year, creating a chart that looks almost parabolic. So what's going on? And is there any relief in sight? On this episode, we speak with Glenn Hickman, president of Hickman's Family Farms, an Arizona egg farm with roughly 10 million chickens. Glenn explains why egg prices have been shooting higher, the role of the Covid-19 pandemic, and how farms are responding to the outbreak of avian flu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.