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Data sources & API attribution

Some of the market data on EggWire comes from government APIs whose terms require a specific attribution notice rather than a licensing fee. Those notices, verbatim:

All five are public-domain U.S. government data, same as the USDA AMS and BLS figures used elsewhere on the site — see "How EggWire handles content" above.

The "Interest rates" figures on the Markets page come straight from the agencies that publish them, each shown with its own date and source:

EggWire does not use FRED, the WSJ Prime Rate or CME Term SOFR data for these figures.

Two further sources are openly licensed rather than public domain, and each carries a required attribution notice of its own:

The EU figures are shown in their native euros-per-100kg unit and are never converted to U.S. dollars per dozen — a conversion would require both a live exchange rate and an assumed eggs-per-kilogram figure this site does not hold and will not invent. They are provided for trend-direction comparison against the U.S. prices shown elsewhere on the site, not for a side-by-side level comparison.

The UK APHA data is scoped to wild-bird findings in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) only, at weekly, county-level granularity — coverage and reporting timeliness vary by country in general; see the Bird Flu tab's own caveat for the full wording.

The kept-bird case data covers ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, each read from its own official case list — gov.uk for England, at per-case granularity (case reference, county, virus strain, and the dates a control zone opened and — once lifted — closed); gov.scot for Scotland, at per-case granularity (case reference, council area, and the dates a case was confirmed and — once lifted — restrictions ended, though gov.scot's own page carries no virus-strain or control-zone-type field). Wales publishes zone-declaration legislation, not per-case data, and is not read here; Northern Ireland's own devolved-administration website (daera-ni.gov.uk) was not read here either. See the Bird Flu tab's own caveat for the full wording.

Two further sources, in the "International egg statistics" panel, are openly licensed government data rather than public domain, and each carries a required attribution notice of its own:

These figures are shown in their native units — Canadian dollars per dozen, pence per dozen — and are never converted to U.S. dollars or to each other. A conversion would require a live exchange rate this site does not hold and will not invent.

DMCA takedown requests

If you believe content on EggWire infringes your copyright, email [email protected] (routes to our registered agent) with:

We target a response within 24 hours. Confirmed takedowns remove the story and, where appropriate, blocklist the source from future crawling.

Ownership, industry ties, and editorial review

EggWire is independently owned and operated by someone who works in the egg industry. We think you should know that rather than find it out, because trade press written by people with operating experience is more useful than trade press written without it — and only if the ties are on the table.

Two things follow from that, and we hold ourselves to both:

One more standard, alongside the review queue above: a severity-4 "important" alert — the kind that pushes to your phone — needs at least two independent sources before it publishes at that severity, and is held at a lower severity until a second, independent outlet corroborates it. For bird flu the bar is higher still: only USDA or a state agency can trigger an alert (see below). An outlet that publishes the same reporting on more than one website (Agweek and its West Central Tribune edition; Hoosier Ag Today and WWBL) counts as one source, every time we count sources. The same goes for a state animal-health agency's email bulletins and its own website (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana): one agency, one source. Five sources appear in the feed like any other, but they never count as that second independent source, and none of them can trigger an alert on its own: USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service reports (nass.usda.gov), which are scheduled data releases rather than accounts of an event; Food Business News (foodbusinessnews.net), whose company stories are usually written up from a press release we may already carry from a newswire; Vital Farms' investor-relations press releases (investors.vitalfarms.com), which repeat what the company also files with the SEC, so one company statement is never two sources; the Federal Register (federalregister.gov), whose rules and notices, including documents shown before they publish, are an agency's paperwork rather than a second account of an event; and the Hong Kong Government's press releases (info.gov.hk), whose notices suspending poultry imports from US areas are trade news, while the US detection behind each one reaches you from USDA and the state.

Bird-flu alerts come only from USDA and state agencies

Bird flu alerts are sent only when USDA or that state's agriculture or animal-health agency has published on it; news reports appear in the feed but never trigger an alert. That covers every story that mentions bird flu, HPAI, avian influenza or H5: a news, trade-press or local report, a roundup of earlier detections, research, a human case, or an outbreak abroad appears in the feed at severity 3 or below and is never pushed to your phone or inbox, however many outlets carry it. What counts is who published, not how it is worded: a bird-flu publication of USDA APHIS, or of the department of agriculture, state veterinarian or board of animal health of the story's own state (any of the 50 states, or Puerto Rico), including a bulletin carried by an official feed or email list that carries that agency's notices. Another state's agency never counts, and neither does a governor's office or a state health department publishing on its own. Because the wording is not judged, an agency's own bird-flu advisory about its state can send an alert too. A story that later picks up such a publication is then judged like any official one. This means a news outlet will sometimes report a detection before we alert you about it; we chose being right over being first.

We used to make one exception: a single report from Brownfield Ag News (brownfieldagnews.com), CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota (cidrap.umn.edu), Agweek (agweek.com, and its West Central Tribune edition at wctrib.com) or Hoosier Ag Today (hoosieragtoday.com and wwbl.com) could count as confirmation for a severity 4 bird-flu alert about U.S. poultry. That exception no longer sends any alert: the rule above applies to these outlets like every other. Each outlet with more than one website still counts as one source, and a single outlet could never trigger our highest, severity-5 alert. Being on this list doesn't change where a story appears in the feed or how it ranks.

How the daily headline for non-subscribers is chosen

Readers without Pro see one headline a day, the same one for everyone. A story can be that headline only if it is about the United States and at least one of these is true: it includes a publication of a federal agency (USDA, including APHIS, AMS, NASS and FSIS, or the FDA) or of a state agriculture or animal-health agency; it includes a report from one of these established U.S. outlets: WATTPoultry and Egg Industry (WATT Global Media), Feedstuffs, Agri-Pulse, Brownfield Ag News, DTN/Progressive Farmer, Farm Progress, Successful Farming, Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, or the American Farm Bureau Federation; or at least two independent outlets have reported it. A story about another country with no U.S. angle is never the headline, and neither is a story from the low-credibility list. Among the stories that qualify, the headline is today's (Eastern time) highest-severity story, and the newest one if several tie. If none qualify today, it is the best qualifying story from the last 72 hours; if there is none of those either, no headline is shown. An EggWire editor can choose a different story for a given day, but only one that is published and not withheld; if that story is later withdrawn, the rule above picks again. Being on this list doesn't change where a story appears in the feed, how it ranks, or whether it sends an alert.

How the What You Missed email is chosen

What You Missed is a free weekly email of up to five headlines. A story can be in it only if it qualifies under the daily-headline rule above and was published in the past seven days. A headline that quotes a price, and routine market-data reports, are left out. The first headline, and the subject line, are never a bird flu story; a bird flu story can appear lower down only when it carries a publication from USDA or a state agriculture or animal-health agency. If no story qualifies, no email is sent that week.

Sponsors are separate again: sponsorship buys a labeled placement and no influence over coverage. See Advertise.

EggWire in AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT)

Team plan members can connect EggWire to an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT (how it works). The assistant reads EggWire on that member's behalf, through their own seat, and can't change anything.

Domains EggWire doesn't use as sources

EggWire's crawler and discovery skip these domains because, in our editorial judgment, they don't meet our sourcing standards for egg-industry news (for example, automated or syndicated financial content, or outlets without independent editorial control). In our code the list is the constant LOW_CREDIBILITY_DOMAINS (in app/services/crawler.py). These are all of the domains on it:

How it is applied: we don't crawl these domains or add them as sources, so their reporting doesn't become an EggWire story. If a story that is already stored cites one of them (for example, because a domain was added to the list later), it is left out each time stories are shown: the feed, story pages, the daily free headline and the EggWire data API, and EggWire for AI assistants. Other source rules are described on this page.

Reader-submitted shelf prices

This feature is currently paused. Reader-submitted shelf prices are not visible anywhere on EggWire right now — the submission form and the public list are both switched off. The rest of this section explains how the feature works, for whenever it's switched back on.

When it's live, some of the egg prices you see on EggWire come from readers, not from our own reporting or a USDA feed — someone stood in a store and told us what they saw on the shelf. Nobody on our staff visits the store to check it.

Nothing goes public straight from the submission form. Every shelf report is reviewed by EggWire staff before it can appear anywhere on the site — until it's approved, it just sits in a queue.

Every shelf report that does appear is stamped with the date it was observed, and we take it down automatically seven days after that. A price from three weeks ago has no business looking current.

See one that looks wrong, or have a question about how this works? Email [email protected] and we'll take a look.

Subscriptions, free trials and automatic renewal

EggWire Pro is a subscription that renews automatically until you cancel. Here is exactly what happens, in the order it happens.

How to cancel

Open Manage billing or cancel in your account (the ⚙ Alerts and preferences button, then Billing) and cancel. You do it yourself, it works at any hour, and you never have to email us or explain yourself. If you would rather we did it, write to [email protected] and we will.

Cancelling stops future charges. You keep Pro access until the end of the period you have already paid for — we do not cut you off the moment you cancel. After that Pro stops, and your sign-in stays unless you ask us to delete it.

Team subscriptions work the same way, but only the team's admin — the person who bought the seats — can cancel or change them. Team admins find Manage billing right on the Team page, next to the seat count, as well as in Alerts. Everyone else on the team sees a note pointing them to their admin instead; write to [email protected] if your admin is unreachable. A Team cancellation keeps every member's access until the end of the paid period, same as Pro — after that, seats go away.

Refunds

If you are charged and did not mean to be — you meant to cancel, you forgot the trial was ending, you were billed twice — email [email protected] and we will refund it. We would rather return the money than keep a subscriber who feels tricked into paying. If we change the price, we will tell you before it takes effect, and you can cancel first.

30-day money-back guarantee. Beyond the cases above, if EggWire Pro doesn't earn its keep, email [email protected] within 30 days of being charged and we will give you a full refund — no particular reason required. This is a manual review by EggWire staff, not an automatic charge-back.

What you can read without an account

EggWire is behind a partial sign-in wall. Without an account you can read every headline with a short summary on the home page, this page, and the public reference pages — egg and feed prices, the bird-flu tracker and cage-free law status by state. The full story is part of EggWire Pro.

A recall or a confirmed HPAI detection is scored and published as soon as EggWire's next scan picks it up, regardless of which company it concerns — what gets held back is never the news, only, in some cases, who can open it.

New accounts start with Pro's 7-day free trial, which needs a card; EggWire no longer opens free accounts. Accounts that already have the free tier keep it.

Team plans for a company: 5 seats $799/year, 10 seats $1,499/year or 25 seats $2,999/year. Seats 6 to 10 add $140 a year each, and seats 11 to 25 add $100 a year each. More than 25 seats? Company-wide is $4,999/yr for everyone at one company email domain, billed by invoice. Email [email protected] to set it up. Need 2 to 4 seats? Pro is $199 a seat per year. Email [email protected] and we'll invoice your company. Team and Company-wide renew every year. Card checkout renews on the card. Invoice-billed plans: we email your renewal invoice on your renewal date, due in 30 days, by card or ACH bank transfer. To change seats or cancel, email [email protected] before your renewal date.

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Referrals

Every EggWire account has a personal invite link. Someone who signs up through it gets a 30-day free trial of Pro instead of the usual 7 days. Like every trial it needs a card, renews at the plan price unless you cancel before it ends, and each account gets one free trial.

The person who shared the link is rewarded only when someone who joined through it subscribes on the EggWire website and a charge above $0 goes through. A free trial, a complimentary code, referral Pro, a fully discounted subscription or signing up does not count. Subscriptions bought in the App Store or Google Play don't count either, because we can't confirm those charges from our side. Once that first charge has gone 30 days without a refund or dispute, once per person, the sharer gets a free month. If the sharer has a live subscription billed through our website, their next bill moves 30 days later; nothing is charged for those 30 days. Otherwise 30 days of Pro are added to their account, starting after any Pro time they already have. If that charge is refunded or disputed within the 30 days, even in part, there is no free month.

Partner codes

Some companies that work with egg producers share EggWire with their own customers through a partner link (eggwire.co/r/ followed by their code). When someone signs up through a partner link and pays on the EggWire website, EggWire pays that company a commission of 20% of what the new subscriber pays in their first year (one annual payment, or up to twelve monthly payments). Nothing is owed on a payment that is refunded or disputed, and a partial refund reduces the commission to match. It does not change the subscriber's price. Partners have no say in what EggWire covers or how.

The program used to also reward the number of sign-ups (at 1, 3 and 10). Those rewards have ended. Anything already earned under them is kept.

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