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Clucking over egg shortages and rising prices? Colorado’s new cage-free law is not to blame

Continued challenges from avian flu are impacting egg production

COLORADO |  Last week, the full extent of Colorado’s cage-free egg law went into effect, requiring that all eggs sold in the state come from free-roaming hens. 

However, egg shortages and rising prices are due to the continued impacts of the highly pathogenic avian influenza on producers.

“You may have seen egg shelves bare or purchase limits or prices very high right now with eggs. That…