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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.

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.

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

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 in your account and cancel. It takes one click, 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. Your account stays open on the free tier, including the Morning Candle, 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 and the whole team drops to the free tier together.

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 headlines 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 — plus 2 full stories a day. Opening more than that requires a free account. Any live severity-5 story in the Food Safety & Recalls category is readable in full at its own link, with no account — that tier is never paywalled. Urgent news in other categories, including bird-flu detections, is not covered by that carve-out.

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.

Signing up costs nothing and needs no card. The free tier is not a trial: it does not expire. A free account gets the Morning Candle daily brief and full summaries for a limited number of stories each day; nothing about that free allowance has changed, and it is not what the wall above governs — the wall is about being signed in at all, not about which tier you're on once you are.

Referrals

Every EggWire account has a personal invite link. Someone who joins through it gets 30 days of Pro, with no card, once they confirm their email address. Each email mailbox can receive this referral Pro only once.

Referral Pro has limits. Each invite link can give it to at most 5 people in any 24 hours, and EggWire gives it to at most 20 people in total, across all links, in any 24 hours. (A one-time grant to people who joined through an invitation before September 14, 2026 does not count toward these limits.) An account whose own Pro came from an invitation cannot pass referral Pro on through its link until it is a paying subscriber on the EggWire website: its subscription is active and a charge above $0 has gone through, so a trial does not count. Anyone who joins past a limit still gets a normal account, just without the 30 days of Pro (plus the standard sign-up trial whenever we offer one); they are told so, and the Pro is not added later.

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. When a charge goes through, once per person, the sharer gets a credit worth one month of their plan on their next bill if they have an active paid subscription billed through our website, or otherwise 30 days of Pro added to their account.

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.

General contact

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