Egg Industry

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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