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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The disruption triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has scrambled the entire U.S. food supply chain, but nowhere is the challenge more stark than in the egg industry.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - Food stores are selling conventional white eggs dirt cheap as farmers tighten up production to shrink surplus stocks and strengthen prices.
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - American egg farmers face more challenges than just building new chicken housing as they convert, as now projected, up to half of their 375 million laying hens from cages to open barns, called aviaries, or pastured-based systems of housing by 2025 or so.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2017 - The popularity of eggs from cage-free and organic hens is rising, and America’s laying hens are hard at work meeting the demand.
