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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Onslow Hall
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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                   NEW YORK EGG PRODUCTION UP 5 PERCENT 
                              IN NOVEMBER 


Egg production on New York farms totaled 103 million eggs in November 2010, 
up 5 percent from last year, according to King Whetstone, Director of USDA’s 
National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. 

The number of hens and pullets of laying age, at 4.20 million, increased 3 percent 
from November 2009 and the rate of lay increased 2 percent to 2,451 eggs per 
100 layers. 

United States egg production totaled 7.54 billion during November 2010, down 
slightly from last year. Production included 6.51 billion table eggs, and 
1.04 billion hatching eggs, of which 970 million were broiler-type and 65 
million were egg-type. The total number of layers during November 2010 
averaged 338 million, down slightly from last year. November egg production 
per 100 layers was 2,232 eggs, down slightly from November 2009. 

U.S. Egg-type chicks hatched during November 2010 totaled 38.9 million, up 
13 percent from November 2009. Eggs in incubators totaled 37.4 million on 
December 1, 2010, down 2 percent from a year ago. The information in this 
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reports at www.nass.usda.gov/ny. 

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12-22-10