US Egg Industry

General US Stats | UEP Monthly Egg Stats

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General US Stats

Egg Industry Fact Sheet
Revised November 2009

• Per capita consumption is a measure of total egg production divided by the total population.
It does not represent demand (USDA has recently adjusted data to reflect 2000 Census figures.)

1998 239.7	1999 249.8	2000 251.7	2001 252.8	2002 255.9	2003 254.7
2004 257.1	2005 255.4	2006 258.1	2007 252.0	2008 248.9	2009 248.0 (est.)
2010 247.8 (est.)

• Currently, the top ten egg producing states (ranked by number of layers represented in thousands) are:

1- Iowa	53,201	6 - Texas	12,935
2 - Ohio	27,100	7 - Michigan	10,178
3 - Indiana	22,805	8 - Minnesota	9,865
4 - Pennsylvania	21,984	9 - Florida	9,611
5 - California	19,094	10 - Nebraska	9,366

• The five largest egg producing states represent approximately 50% of all U.S. layers.

• U.S. egg production during November 2009 was 6.52 billion table eggs, which is up from 6.47 billion table eggs produced during November of last year.

• Presently, there are 62 egg producing companies with 1 million plus layers and 12 companies with greater than 5 million layers.**

• To date, there are approximately 205 egg producing companies with flocks of 75,000 hens or more. These companies represent about 95% of all the layers in the United States.** In 1987, there were around 2,500 operations.** (Number of operations in 1987 include some contract farms and divisions.)

• In 2008, the average number of egg-type laying hens in the U.S. was 281 million. Flock size for December 1, 2009 was 282 million layers, up from 285. Rate of lay per day on December 1, 2009 averaged 74.8 eggs per 100 layers, up 1% from last year.

•Of the 209.1 million cases (estimated) of shell eggs produced in 2008:
68 million cases (32.2%) were further processed (for foodservice, manufacturing, retail and export);
121.7 million cases (58.2%) went on to retail;
18 million cases (9%) went for foodservices use; and
1.4 million (0.7%) were exported.

• For the first 10 months of 2009, cumulative exports of processed egg products reached $86.74 million, an increase of 16.5 percent over the same period a year earlier, due to increased import demand by Canada and the EU-27. Tables eggs export volume increased 34.5 percent year-on-year to 61.21 million dozen, with an export value of $45.33 million, up 14.5%.

• Exports of processed egg products to Japan, the single largest market, decreased to $30.39 million, a decrease of 2.8% over the same period a year earlier. Japan accounted for 35.0% of total value of exports in the first ten months of of 2009. Exports to The EU-27 totaled $23.2 million, up 35.6 percent year on year. Exports to Canada were up 134.9 percent year on year to $11.52 million. Sales to Mexico decreased 6.2 percent to $5.48 million.

• Table egg exports to Hong Kong, the top market for U.S. table eggs for years, reached 20.97 million dozen, an increase of 62.0% year to year. Shipments to Canada totaled 20.54 million dozen, up 5.2% from the same period of last year. Besides, table egg exports to other markets such as United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, and Israel, significantly due largely to decreased export prices for table eggs.***

Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, **American Egg Board, ***USAPEEC