May Egg Production Drops 6%

A USDA report says May egg output dropped year-over-year, as did the number of total egg layers in the U.S.  Production fell to 8.59 billion eggs last month, down 6% year-over-year.  About 7.3 billion were table eggs, and 1.29 billion were hatching eggs.  Of the hatching eggs, 1.18 billion were broiler-type.

USDA also said the number of egg layers in the U.S. on June 1 totaled 350 million, a 6% drop from the same date last year.  Approximately 285 million layers produced table or market eggs, 60.3 million laid broiler-type hatching eggs, and 4.13 million produced egg-type hatching eggs.  The rate of production averaged 79 eggs per 100 layers, a slight decrease from June 2024.  Hatchings in May included 60.9 million egg-type chicks, an eight percent increase from the same month last year.  Eggs in incubators jumped 11% to 59.6 million.

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