Utah eggs will be cage-free by 2025. Here’s why farmers lobbied for the law and why you’ll be paying more at the store.

Farms with more than 3,000 hens will have to improve facilities, a process that will cost the industry nearly $250 million.

(Photo courtesy of Oakdell Egg Farms) Hens are free to perch inside Oakdell Egg Farms' cage-free facility in Lewiston, near the Idaho border.