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                        2009 POULTRY VALUE DECREASES
	
The combined value of New York produced eggs and the value of sales for other 
chickens, was $66.4 million for the year ending November 30, 2009, according to 
Stephen Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York 
Field Office.  Egg production in New York during the 2009 year totaled 1.19 billion, up 
2 percent from a year earlier. Egg prices were lower, decreasing from 99.6 cents in 
2008 to 66.9 cents in 2009.  The resulting total value of $66.4 million was 31 percent 
below the 2008 egg production value of $96.9 million.

Nationally, the combined value of production from broilers, eggs, turkeys, and the 
value of sales from chickens in 2009 was $31.6 billion, down 12 percent from the 
$36.0 billion in 2008.  The value of broilers produced during 2009 was $21.8 billion, 
down 6 percent from 2008.  Value of all egg production in 2009 was $6.16 billion, 
down 25 percent from the $8.22 billion in 2008.  The value of turkeys produced during 
2009 was $3.57 billion, down 20 percent from the $4.48 billion the previous year.
     
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