US Egg Industry

General US Stats | UEP Monthly Egg Stats

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General US Stats

Egg Industry Fact Sheet
Revised May 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 250.0 (est.)
2010 248.1 (est.)

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

1- Iowa	52,811	6 - Texas	13,639
2 - Ohio	26,846	7 - Minnesota	9,753
3 - Indiana	23,282	8 - Nebraska	9,716
4 - Pennsylvania	21,559	9 - Michigan	9,626
5 - California	19,476	10 - Florida	9,514

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

• U.S. egg production during May 2009 was 6.41 billion table eggs, which is up from 6.28 billion table eggs produced during April 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 May 1, 2009 was 282 million layers,up from last year's 280 . Rate of lay per day on May 1, 2009 averaged 72.4 eggs per 100 layers, up 1% from year ago.

•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 quarter of 2009, cumulative exports of processed egg products reached $21.64 million, an increase of 4.0 percent over the same period a year earlier, thanks to increased export prices. Tables eggs export volume increased 59.1 percent year on year to 11.87 million, with an export value of $9.86million, up 37.7%.

• Exports of processed egg products to Japan, the single largest market, jumped to $10.33 million, an increase of 19.8%. Japan accounted for 47.7% of total exports in 2009. Exports to Germany totaled $2.15million, down 0.4 percent year on year. Exports to Mexico were up 12.1 percent year on year to 2.05 million. Sales to Canada, another important market increased 71.9 % to $1.68 million.

• Table egg exports to Hong Kong, the top market for U.S. table eggs for years, were 4.93 million dozen, an increase of 107.2% year to year. Shipments to Canada, the second most important export market for U.S. table eggs, totaled 3.41 million dozen, up 6.7% from the same period of last year. Besides, table eggs, totaled 3.41 million dozen, up 6.7 percent from the same period of last year. Besides, table egg exports to other markets such as United Arab Emirates, Netherlands Antilles, Bahamas, Israel, and Bermuda increased significantly due in large to decreased export prices for table eggs.

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