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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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                       NEW YORK EGG PRODUCTION UP 8 PERCENT IN APRIL 


    Egg production on New York farms totaled 98 million eggs in April, 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 4.07 million, increased 7 percent from 
April 2010 and the rate of lay was 2,411 eggs per 100 layers, up slightly from last year.
    
 United States egg production totaled 7.61 billion during April 2011, up slightly from last 
year. Production included 6.56 billion table eggs, and 1.06 billion hatching eggs, of which 987 
million were broiler-type and 70 million were egg-type. The total number of layers during April 
2011 averaged 340 million, down slightly from last year. April egg production per 100 layers 
was 2,236 eggs, up 1 percent from April 2010.
   
 United States egg-type chicks hatched during April 2011 totaled 43.4 million, down 9 
percent from April 2010. Eggs in incubators totaled 40.8 million on May 1, 2011, down 2 
percent from a year ago. The information in this release is available by free email subscription 
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05-24-11