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The multi-million dollar facility is completely off the grid.But it still needs to figure out how to produce its own feed, and may need GMOs to do so.
The Waialua Egg Farm, located behind a long green grass berm on Route 803 less than 5 miles east of Wahiawa, is finally producing eggs.
The approximately 200,000-chicken facility has been under construction for 10 years and the first batch of 900 dozen eggs was sold last week.Its water, covered in solar panels, comes directly from its own wells, and chicken manure is converted into biochar, which is returned as nutrients for farmers across the state.The facility is considered state-of-the-art.
Waialua Egg Farm is owned by Villa Rose, a partner of two of the continent’s leading agribusinesses, Hidden Villa Ranch and Rose Acre Farms.
There are so few producers in Hawaii that the National Agricultural Statistics Service stopped releasing data in 2011, when 65.5 million eggs were produced, because it would have leaked sensitive business information for the few large operators that remained.
Because few can provide eggs on the scale needed to feed the whole of Hawaii, most of the eggs available come from the mainland, like most foods.And because of the scale of their operations, mainland producers can produce and supply eggs for less than $5 a dozen, while Hawaiian eggs typically cost around $1.50 more.
Post time: Apr-07-2022
