Iowa is the nation’s leading egg producer according to ISU Extension and Outreach, and as some people have gone to stockpiling groceries amid the COVID-19 pandemic, egg producers in Guthrie County are feeding the demand.

Rose Acre Farms is one of the leading egg manufacturing companies in the U.S., with farms in Stuart and Guthrie Center. Commander in Chief Tony Wesner says in the last month the company went from having too many eggs to having a shortage. Wesner hopes operations will calm down in the next few weeks, but mentions they are adhering to social distancing guidelines, staggering out employees’ shifts and sending home anyone who may have COVID-19 symptoms, “We’re just taking it a day at a time, an hour at a time actually and dealing with what comes at us and we produce one of God’s most perfect proteins in my opinion for the best cost and this country and this world needs that today.”

Wesner adds that his team and himself consider it an honor to help produce food that the country and the world needs. ISU Extension and Outreach also stresses that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, and the European Food Safety Authority are in full agreement that there is currently no evidence that COVID-19 has spread through food or packaging.