ANALYSIS: EU Egg Production Shifts at Different Speeds Across Member States
The EU’s egg sector is steadily moving away from caged production, but the pace of the transition varies considerably between major producing countries. For the market, this means that the availability of different egg categories is changing at different rates, while producers face decisions over investment and future production capacity.
France is relatively advanced, SNIPO reports cages accounted for under 25% of laying hens in 2025, down from more than 68% a decade earlier, with 52% now in free-range or organic systems— well above the EU’s 23%...
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