FRANCESVILLE, Ind. — With grocers offering eggs from chickens with different “lifestyles” — including cage free, pasture-raised and traditional cages — egg producers are scrambling to meet new individual consumer and commercial egg-buyers’ demands.
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Two new poultry barns at Rose Acre Farms in Francesville, Ind., are being built inside out. They start with the construction of the cage-free poultry system, then walls are wrapped around the building.
Chickens move freely in a new cage-free barn at Rose Acre Farms Francesville, Ind., site. Rose Acre and Summit Livestock Facilities plan to build 10 cage-free buildings in this style to meet growing demand.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Poultry producers don’t seem to be flocking to Illinois these days, but there are pockets of the industry throughout the state.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When Ken Koelkebeck buys a dozen eggs, he buys conventional eggs produced by chickens in cages.
