Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the delivery of 5.67 million Grade A eggs to food banks and pantries across the state to help with the ongoing affordability crisis affecting Florida families.
“Eggs are a breakfast staple, not a luxury,” Uthmeier said through a press release this week. “When the price of a carton goes up, working families feel it every week at the checkout line. Today 5.67 million eggs are moving to food banks and pantries in every Florida county—at no cost to households, food banks, or taxpayers. That is affordability you can measure.”
The egg delivery follows a settlement led by U.S. Department of Justice and 17 state attorneys general over how price equations published by market reporter Urner Barry impacted what grocers and families pay for eggs and whether Barry was tricked by certain producers.
Florida joined the lawsuit in December 2025.
Specifically, under the settlement's terms, producers donated 53 million Grade A large eggs to food banks across the 17 states. The agreement also will divvy out $3.3 million to the states.
Florida will receive 5.67 million eggs, or 472,500 dozen in 21 truckloads at no cost to food banks or taxpayers. It will also receive $348,490 for antitrust enforcement and consumer protection.
Cal-Maine Foods has been providing the eggs since late July and will conclude operations this week. The distribution, through Feeding Florida’s nine affiliate food banks, includes the following locations:
- Feeding South Florida: Five truckloads to Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties.
- Feeding Tampa Bay: Four truckloads to Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sumter counties.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida: Four truckloads to Brevard, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia counties.
- Second Harvest of the Big Bend: Two truckloads to Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, Wakulla counties.
- Feeding Northeast Florida: Two truckloads to Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Levy, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, and Union counties.
- All Faiths Food Bank: One truckload to DeSoto and Sarasota counties.
- Feeding the Gulf Coast: One truckload to Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Washington counties.
- Harry Chapin Food Bank: One truckload to Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee counties.
- Treasure Coast Food Bank: One truckload to Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie counties.
“It’s an honor to partner with Feeding Florida and our food banks to provide healthy farm-grown products to Floridians,” Florida Agricultural Commissioner Wilton Simpson said. “Having that existing structure in place helps us to get these eggs from the settlement into the hands of those who need them most. I thank Attorney General Uthmeier for his work on this issue and for allowing us to be a part of it.”
