US Egg Industry

General US Stats | UEP Monthly Egg Stats

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General US Stats

Egg Industry Fact Sheet
Revised June 2008

• 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.)

1997 235.6	1999 249.8	2001 252.8	2003 254.7	2005 255.4	2007 253.8
1998 239.7	2000 251.7	2002 255.9	2004 257.1	2006 256.0	2008 249.4 (est.)

• Currently, the top ten egg producing states (ranked by number of layers represented in thousands) are: 1) Iowa (52,754), 2) Ohio (25,483), 3) Indiana (23,552), 4) Pennsylvania (20,111), 5) California (19,906), 6) Texas (13,485), 7) Minnesota (9,691), 8) Florida (9,938),
9) Nebraska (9,533) and 10) Georgia (8,931).

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

• U.S. egg production during May 2008 was 6.43 billion table eggs, which is up from 6.34 billion table eggs produced during May of last year.

• Presently, there are 60 egg producing companies with 1 million plus layers and 12 companies with greater than 5 million layers.**

• To date, there are approximately 240 egg producing companies with flocks of 75,000 hens or more. These 255 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 2007, the average number of egg-type laying hens in the U.S. was 284 million. Flock size for June 1, 2008 was 280 million layers,remaining the same from a year ago . Rate of lay per day on June 1, 2008 averaged 71.7 eggs per 100 layers, up slightly from year ago.

•Of the 211.1 million cases (estimated) of shell eggs produced in 2007:
66 million cases (31.3%) were further processed (for foodservice, manufacturing, retail and export);
124.6 million cases (59%) went on to retail;
19 million cases (9%) went for foodservices use; and
1.5 million (.7%) were exported.

• For 2007 exports of processed egg products continued to soar, rising 8 percent for the year to $74.2 million, while table egg export volume increased 42 percent to 78.7 million dozen, with a value of $63.5 million, up 74 percent.

Exports of processed egg products to Japan, the single largest market, showed some decrease, falling 19 percent, to $25.3 million. Japan accounted for 34 percent of total exports in 2007. Helping boost the bottom line, however, was Mexico, thanks in part to USAPEEC's efforts there to promote the use of U.S. egg products in commercial applications and food service. Shipments to Mexico shot upward by 33 percent, to $9.5 million. Sales to Canada, another leading market, increased 2 percent to $7.9 million.

Hong Kong remained, as it has for years, the top market for U.S. table eggs. Shipments to Hong Kong of 25.4 million dozen were up 20 percent last year, even though value of $19.0 million increased significantly by 40 percent.***

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