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*8 billion eggs | *8 billion eggs. 300M layers. Each layer produces only 25 eggs per year? How to explain discrepancy of 10 for the 300 eggs that a hen could lay? Only by fact that a chicken lays eggs only 1/10 of its life???? | ||
*200 companies with 75k+ hens produce 99% of eggs | *200 companies with 75k+ hens produce 99% of eggs | ||
*65 companies have 1M+ hens. | |||
Implications: | Implications: | ||
*Hundreds of thousands of regenerative producers could constitute open source market substitution | *Hundreds of thousands of regenerative producers could constitute open source market substitution | ||
Revision as of 16:51, 21 March 2017
http://www.aeb.org/farmers-and-marketers/industry-overview
Summary:
- 8 billion eggs. 300M layers. Each layer produces only 25 eggs per year? How to explain discrepancy of 10 for the 300 eggs that a hen could lay? Only by fact that a chicken lays eggs only 1/10 of its life????
- 200 companies with 75k+ hens produce 99% of eggs
- 65 companies have 1M+ hens.
Implications:
- Hundreds of thousands of regenerative producers could constitute open source market substitution