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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Schoeneiche, Germany – 26 March 2025
1. Hens inside coop
2. SOUNDBITE (German) David Karlsch, farmer at the Saballus poultry family farm: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 AND 4++
“The demand at Easter time is of course very, very high, as many children naturally want to paint eggs. It’s also a tradition in Germany at this time of year, which is how I remember it as a child. And that’s why it’s actually the time for eggs.”
3. Hen by egg
4. Close of eggs
5. Close of rooster
6. Wide of chickens eating
7. Chickens eating
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 27 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Hans-Peter Goldnick, president of the German Egg Association: ++STARTS ON SHOT 5 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
“We ourselves essentially have to import eggs from Holland every day to keep everyone satisfied. So it’s difficult, especially given the production volume. We have around 45 million eggs that we can collect from the chicken coops every day, and in America, there’s a shortage of around 50 million eggs a day. That shows how difficult it is.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Schoeneiche, Germany – 26 March 2025
9. Chickens in pen
10. Close of Karlsch stamping eggs
11. Empty eggs cartons
12. Woman walking to egg vending machine
13. Woman putting coins in eggs vending machine
14. Woman taking egg carton from vending machine
15. SOUNDBITE (German) David Karlsch, farmer at the Saballus poultry family farm: ++STARTS ON SHOT 11++
“Here in Germany it’s a bit different. We take the egg out of the laying nest, that’s how we do it here, but we don’t alter it. And then pack it directly into the carton as it is, not washed like in America. And then it goes straight into the egg vending machine, which is refrigerated.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Schoeneiche, Germany – 26 March 2025
16. Close of Karlsch holding hen
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 27 March 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (German) Hans-Peter Goldnick, president of the German Egg Association: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 18 AND 19++
“I spoke to an egg farmer and he said that if the price difference is as high as it is at the moment, €3 per kilo here and €9 per kilo there, that’s a lot of money, making the eggs flow to the US.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Schoeneiche, Germany – 26 March 2025
18. Karlsch putting hen inside coop
19. Hens
STORYLINE:
The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs.
Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden are among the nations the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached to address an egg shortage brought on by an ongoing bird flu outbreak, according to European industry groups.
But supplying Americans with eggs would be complicated for foreign producers — and not because of political tensions triggered by the myriad import tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed or threatened to impose on his nation’s top trading partners.
Even if they were eager to share, European countries don’t have many surplus eggs because of their own avian flu outbreaks and the growing domestic demand ahead of Easter.
One of the biggest obstacles, however, is the approach the United States takes to preventing salmonella contamination.
U.S. food safety regulations require fresh eggs to be sanitized and refrigerated before they reach shoppers; in the Europe Union, safety standards call for Grade A eggs to be sold unwashed and without extended chilling.
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