New York farms produced 139.7 million eggs in January, down 1 percent from 140.6 million eggs in the year-earlier period, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The total number of layers in the Empire State slipped 0.4 percent in January to 5.53 million from 5.56 million a year prior. New York egg production per […]
Get Instant Access to This Article
Become a Central New York Business Journal subscriber and get immediate access to all of our subscriber-only content and much more.
- Critical Central New York business news and analysis updated daily.
- Immediate access to all subscriber-only content on our website.
- Get a year's worth of the Print Edition of The Central New York Business Journal.
- Special Feature Publications such as the Book of Lists and Revitalize Greater Binghamton, Mohawk Valley, and Syracuse Magazines
Click here to purchase a paywall bypass link for this article.
New York farms produced 139.7 million eggs in January, down 1 percent from 140.6 million eggs in the year-earlier period, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
The total number of layers in the Empire State slipped 0.4 percent in January to 5.53 million from 5.56 million a year prior.
New York egg production per 100 layers totaled 2,525 eggs in the first month of the year, down 0.2 percent from 2,530 eggs in January 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, egg production fell 1 percent to 696.6 million eggs in January from 705.5 million eggs a year earlier, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced 9.4 billion eggs in January, up almost 5 percent from nearly 9 billion eggs a year earlier, the USDA said.