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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Onslow Hall
Monday, February 28, 2011

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            NEW YORK ANNUAL EGG PRODUCTION DOWN 3 PERCENT IN 2010 

Annual egg production in New York for the 2010 production year was 1.16 billion 
eggs, down 3 percent from the 1.19 billion produced in 2009, according to 
King Whetstone, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, 
New York Field Office. There was an average of 3.98 million layers in the Empire 
State during the 12-month period, down 2 percent from the previous year. Average 
annual production per layer was 292 eggs, unchanged from 2009. 

All chicken inventory (excluding commercial broilers) as of December 1, 2010 
totaled 5.53 million, up 8 percent from the 5.13 million one year earlier. Total 
chicken inventory on December 1, 2010 included 4.35 million layers, 1.18 million 
pullets, and 7.00 thousand other chickens, up 6 percent, 13 percent, and unchanged 
respectively. 

The average value per bird in New York on hand December 1, 2010 was $1.90, up 27 
percent from a year ago. The total value of all flocks in the state on 
December 1, 2010 was 10.5 million dollars, up 37 percent from the 7.69 million 
dollars in 2009. 

Nationally, egg production during the year ending November 30, 2010 totaled 91.4 
billion eggs, up 1 percent from 2009. Table egg production, at 78.5 billion eggs, 
was up 1 percent from the previous year. Hatching egg production, at 12.9 billion 
eggs, was up 1 percent from 2009. Layer numbers during 2010 averaged 340 million, 
up 1 percent from the year earlier. The annual average production per layer on 
hand in 2010 was 269 eggs, up slightly from 2009. The total number of chickens on 
hand on December 1, 2010 (excluding commercial broilers) was 455 million birds, 
up 1 percent from last year. The total value of all chickens on December 1, 2010 
was $1.60 billion, up 6 percent from December 1, 2009. The average value increased 
from $3.34 per bird on December 1, 2009, to $3.52 per bird on December 1, 2010. The 
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