Over the last five years there has been a continuing trend towards higher welfare egg production.
In 2005, 37 per cent of class A eggs in the UK were produced in free-range or barn systems totalling 3,248 million eggs. By 2009 the proportion of non-cage eggs produced had increased by eight per cent and the number of eggs produced by nearly a quarter (24 per cent).
Data from the first six months of 2010 places the number of non-cage eggs at 49 per cent suggesting that UK free-range and barn egg production might finally soon pass the halfway mark.
For more information, read the 'egg' indicator.
Number of eggs produced by system (in millions)
