In 2019, pastured eggs sold for more than twice the price of cage-free eggs and almost 5 times the price of conventional eggs, making pastured eggs more profitable than the other eggs. Over time, the perfectly competitive egg market will approach a long-run equilibrium in which producing pastured eggs

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In a perfectly competitive market, profits above the norm attract new entrants, increasing supply and driving down prices until economic profit is zero. Thus, over time, producing pastured eggs will yield no more profit than producing other types of eggs, as the market adjusts to eliminate the initial higher profitability.

In 2019, Pastured Eggs Sold for More Than Twice the Price