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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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                 NEW YORK EGG PRODUCTION UP 8 PERCENT IN JANUARY


    Egg production on New York farms totaled 106 million eggs in January, up 
8 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 4.29 million, increased 9 
percent from January 2010 and the rate of lay was 2,471 eggs per 100 layers, 
down 1 percent from last year.

    United States egg production totaled 7.83 billion during January 2011, up 1 
percent from last year. Production included 6.75 billion table eggs, and 1.08 
billion hatching eggs, of which 1.01 billion were broiler-type and 70 million were 
egg-type. The total number of layers during January 2011 averaged 342 
million, up slightly from last year. January egg production per 100 layers was 
2,289 eggs, up 1 percent from January 2010. 

    Egg-type chicks hatched during January 2011 totaled 41.4 million, up 7 
percent from January 2010. Eggs in incubators totaled 39.7 million on 
February 1, 2011, up 1 percent from a year ago. The information in this release 
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