But Cal-Maine's plague profiteering playbook wasn't spring up out of nowhere in 2021. During the bird flu outbreaks of the 2000s, Cal-Maine observed that bird flus were good for big egg brands, increasing the price of eggs, but that these increases were transient, fading quickly as flock sizes recovered. During the 2015 bird flu pandemic, producers quickly raised layers to maturity and replaced their flocks, and saw only modest rises in egg prices (and profits).
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