ST. GEORGE — Cliff Lillywhite admits that it has not been easy converting his egg-producing facility from cages to no cages.
He began the endeavor at Oakdell Egg Farms in North Salt Lake before the Utah Legislature passed a law two years ago requiring all egg facilities in the state to be cage-free by the start of 2025. While he expects to be compliant by that deadline, he’s now worried by what the law didn’t include: a state ban on selling noncage-free eggs.
“If the state of Utah remains where it is, it will encourage all of us to sell eggs outside of the state, which we don’t want to do because we love Utah,” he told members of the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee last week. “We want to take care of things here in Utah. It’s just been a real difficult thing.”
He’s not alone, either. Utah’s egg producers are asking state lawmakers to consider banning the sale of noncage-free eggs by the time the 2021 law goes into effect, state agriculture officials reported to the committee on Aug. 9.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.
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