SD-CROP-LIVESTOCK

NEWS RELEASE
United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service
South Dakota Field Office - Sioux Falls, SD

Media contact: South Dakota Office, 605/323-6500
Email:  nass-sd@nass.usda.gov


SOUTH DAKOTA POULTRY RECEIPTS MIXED


SIOUX FALLS, April 27, 2006 -- The value of egg production in
 South Dakota during 2005 was $20.5 million, down 49 percent 
from the $40.2 million in 2004, according to the South Dakota 
office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.  
Producers received an average 30.1 cents per dozen, down from 
the previous year’s 51.7 cents per dozen.  Egg production in 
2005 was estimated at 816 million, down 117 million, or 13 
percent, from the previous year.  Chicken deaths and other 
losses were up 90 percent from one year ago.

South Dakota producers raised 4.6 million turkeys in 2005, 
up 100,000 head from 2004, an increase of 2 percent.  The 
value of this production was $52.1 million in 2005, down 
$5.2 million from $57.3 million in 2004.  Pounds produced 
in 2005 totaled 140.8 million, down 7 percent from the 1
50.8 million pounds produced in 2004.


Access this complete report at:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/poultry/pbh-bbp/plva0406.pdf