West of Mpls MN about 50 miles on Hwy 12 | If egg producers can keep a handle on bird flu outbreaks, the price of "cage free" eggs will probably less than $5.50/dozen a year from now...especially if corn stays at or below $4;00/bushel.
About all "cage free" means is bigger confinement barns with bigger laying cages where the hens can come and go as they please from the laying cage to eat, drink, and spread their wings as they please. Kind of like your Grandpas old chicken house with the laying boxes screwed to the wall that the "Dekalb" style caged laying barns made obsolete. We've come full circle in ag production from the past...again.
Your post reads like my local "cage free" egg producer will continue their never ending expansion...which isn't a bad thing if a person is their corn growing neighbor. Their corn basis sucks right now because they are still in the process of repopulating a few barns after a bird flu outbreak.
https://forsmanfarms.com/
https://youtu.be/oZDGce5OtSE |
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