Cage-Free Egg Producers Making More Eggs Than Consumers Want
June 23, 2017 | 1 min to read
Cage-free egg farms are producing more eggs than consumers are willing to buy, according to the CEO of the country’s largest supermarket egg producer.
“Right now, there is a much greater demand for commodity eggs at these low prices than there is for cage-free eggs,” Cal-Maine Foods CEO Dolph Baker said at a conference earlier this month, noting that private egg producers are currently operating at a loss.
The switch to cage-free eggs is one of the biggest changes currently taking place in American agriculture. After McDonald’s committed to transitioning to cage-free eggs in 2015, most major retailers followed suit, including Walmart and Costco, leading to what most assumed would be a de facto end of battery-cage-produced eggs in the United States.
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