The price of eggs can bend the course of history, as contemporary politics shows. Americans want eggs, but consumers are fuming about high prices, which spiked sharply upward due to avian flu that’s devastating chicken farms. The Irish may be able to help, not by exporting eggs to America but by protecting the layer flocks. An exploratory trade mission from Monaghan County, Ireland, visited Warren County with the subject of agriculture technology at the top of the agenda for possible business relationships spanning the Atlantic.