New York farms produced 150.2 million eggs in December, up 7.6 percent from 139.6 million eggs in the year-earlier period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The number of layers in the Empire State averaged almost 5.8 million in December, up almost 5 percent from more than 5.5 million layers a year […]
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New York farms produced 150.2 million eggs in December, up 7.6 percent from 139.6 million eggs in the year-earlier period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
The number of layers in the Empire State averaged almost 5.8 million in December, up almost 5 percent from more than 5.5 million layers a year prior. December egg production per 100 layers totaled 2,598 eggs, up 2.6 percent from 2,531 eggs in December 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, farms produced 799.1 million eggs during December, up 12 percent from 713.7 million eggs a year ago.
U.S. egg production totaled 9.8 billion eggs in December, a rise of nearly 4 percent from more than 9.4 billion eggs produced a year ago.