Most large-scale egg producers to whom the law would apply have been working toward cage-free operations for up to a decade.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new Michigan law requiring stores to sell only cage-free eggs is now in effect.

Michigan is preparing for a new law requiring cage-free eggs by December 31, 2024, potentially raising prices.

You may have already paid more for eggs in Michigan over the last few months, but those prices are going up again now that a new law takes effect December 31st.

In 2019, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II signed a revised Animal Industry Act including the Michigan Cage-Free Egg Law, requiring cage-free environments by Dec. 31, 2024. (Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was on a trade mission to Israel at the time.) A 2009 act called for larger cages by the end of 2019, but the new law prohibits cages.