State ballot initiatives, customer demands and possible passage of national hen welfare legislation create uncertainty over housing choices for US egg producers.
As the months go by, the uncertainty about housing standards for layers in California and the U.S. as a whole continues. Many egg producers are sitting on the sidelines waiting, some are adding cage-free housing to satisfy a market which, while still small, is growing rapidly, and a brave few have added fully enriched cages and are trying to create a market niche for these eggs. Perhaps the one thing that everyone can agree on is that change is coming and the U.S. layer industry will undergo a major transformation.
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