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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

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                 NEW YORK EGG PRODUCTION UP 8 PERCENT IN MARCH 


    Egg production on New York farms totaled 106 million eggs in March, 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 4.24 million, increased 7 
percent from March 2010 and the rate of lay was 2,502 eggs per 100 layers, 
up 1 percent from last year.

     United States egg production totaled 7.83 billion during March 2011, down 
slightly 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 73 million were 
egg-type. The total number of layers during March 2011 averaged 340 million, 
down 1 percent from last year. March egg production per 100 layers was 2,302 
eggs, up slightly from March 2010. 

    United States chicks hatched during March 2011 totaled 44.0 million, down 
2 percent from March 2010. Eggs in incubators totaled 40.8 million on April 1, 
2011, down 5 percent from a year ago.  The information in this release is 
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www.nass.usda.gov/ny.

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04-28-11