Pasture-Raised Egg Market Grows
In 2006, Michael Cox, a chicken farmer in northwest Arkansas, faced a choice that many farmers do: Grow or die. His family had been raising chickens for three generations, first for agriculture behemoth Cargill and then for themselves. Even with 800,000 laying hens, Cox was not big enough to compete: “We were planning our funeral,” he said. Cox, who was then 25, switched some of the family’s production to organic, which brought...
