Source: AGRI-PULSE, 5/24/17

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. Indeed, the move is on: All top 25 U.S. grocers and a majority of the largest 20 fast food chains are now trying to meet their public pledges toward marketing cage-free eggs, reports the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), created in the 2014 farm bill.

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