I am the operations manager for Grinnell Farm to Table and Pleasant Grove Homestead has been our anchor egg producer for the last several years for both our retail store and our food access program, where we purchase food from farmers and donate at no cost to low income households and food pantries. In particular, PGH has been supplying eggs to several Poweshiek County food pantries. Although we have tons of hobby farm egg producers in our area, PGH are one of the only, if not the only, licensed direct market egg producers in our area and they are the only ones who have the volume of production to be able to supply the amount of eggs that food pantries need consistently (in addition to their other markets). The investment they are looking at is exactly the kind of efficiency upgrade that they need to maintain and grow their level of production so that they can be a viable, medium scale egg producer - exactly what we need to make local food economically feasible for producers and a real option for more consumers.