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After falling more than a third from March's record highs, wholesale egg prices have shot up 27 percent since mid-May. That's an unusual jump for this time of year, when egg prices tend to slump. Economists tie the increase to ever-higher corn prices, which have made egg farmers hesitant to expand their flocks. In addition, a sizable export shipment of eggs last month, sent to Japan and Iraq, apparently tightened domestic supplies, driving prices up, according to Don Bell, an expert in egg and poultry economics at the University of California, Riverside. <more> July 2, 2008 Sacramento Bee