Rembrandt Foods is closing its Renville egg-production plant, a move that will result in the loss of 52 jobs in the small central Minnesota community.
The egg market is oversupplied, which undercuts the company’s profit, Paul Hardy, the company’s president, said Wednesday.
The company is facing other headwinds as well. Consumers are shifting away from conventional eggs toward cage-free varieties. And several states are considering legislation, like California’s Proposition 12, that restrict the sale of eggs that don’t meet certain animal-welfare standards.
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