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Wabash County egg business kept busy by shoppers during pandemic

People haven't just been buying a surplus of toilet paper. Eggs have also been flying off the shelves because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Sam Krouse is vice president of business development for MPS Egg Farms in North Manchester. He says right from the beginning, they saw sales jump by about 100% over that first week when you saw the panic buying.

 

Krouse says the increase is because restaurants are either closed or only offering takeout, which means more people are eating and cooking at home.

 

 

Krouse says the MPS egg facilities are still running "full tilt," with employees working overtime.

 

 

The company says it produces about nine million eggs a day,

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