The small village of Askeryd currently has 18,000 laying hens at Bordsjö, but a completely new facility for free-range hens, with an additional 70,000 places, is currently being built on a field a bit away in Askeryd. The increased demand for Swedish eggs is making Lars Knutsson, like many other egg producers right now, dare to invest forward. Nationally, the number of laying hens has almost doubled in Sweden, to nearly ten million, in the last ten years.
According to the Swedish Board of Agriculture, applications for expansions are also increasing. Exports are increasing, for example when other countries are hit by infections, or are now in transition to free-range, where Sweden is ahead. We Swedes eat more eggs than ever before, with consumption per person increasing by 28 percent since the year 2000.
67 eggs per day and person. The industry's own goal is one egg per person and day.