Mato Grosso, Brazil
Granja Mantiqueira is the largest egg farm in Latin America. It produces 2.7 million eggs a day from 4 million hens. The facility is highly automated, with food, water, and humidity-controlled automatically, as is the removal of eggs and excrement. The eggs roll down the floor of the cages to a conveyor belt that delivers them to an egg elevator connecting all six levels of hens. Then eggs are rolled to another conveyor system that takes them hundreds of meters to the sorting, cleaning, and packaging building.
