Egg prices in the Baltic stay under pressure

Egg prices across the Baltic region continue to face significant pressure due to a combination of supply disruptions and market uncertainty.

David Corredor

Egg prices in the Baltic stay under pressure

Egg prices across the Baltic region continue to face significant pressure due to a combination of supply disruptions and market uncertainty. The aftermath of recent avian influenza outbreaks in Lithuania and neighboring Poland has left a lasting impact on the regional egg market, with fears of shortages driving up wholesale prices.

In Lithuania, retail egg prices have seen a moderate increase in recent weeks. However, wholesale prices have surged by double digits, indicating that producers are absorbing much of the cost burden for now. According to Aleksandrs Izgorodins, an analyst at Citadele Bank, this situation is unsustainable. “If wholesale prices continue rising for an extended period, a further hike in retail egg prices will become inevitable,” he warned.

The outbreaks have been particularly severe. Lithuania lost over 246,000 hens at a single poultry farm in Šilutė District, while Poland has seen the culling of nearly 7 million birds—twice the number of laying hens in Lithuania. Despite these losses, Lithuania’s poultry industry still has the capacity to produce between 800 and 880 million eggs in 2025, which is sufficient to meet domestic demand. Many of these eggs are also exported to neighboring countries, including Latvia, and even to markets as far as the U.S. and Japan.