According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) US egg production totalled 7.72 billion during March 2009, up one per cent from last year. Production included 6.63 billion table eggs, and 1.09 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.02 billion were broiler-type and 75 million were egg-type.
The total number of layers during March 2009 averaged 340 million, down slightly from last year. March egg production per 100 layers was 2,269 eggs, up one per cent from March 2008.
All layers in the US on 1 April 2009 totalled 341 million, consisting of 283 million layers producing table or market type eggs, 54.3 million layers producing broiler-type hatching eggs, and 3.07 million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs.
As regards egg-type chicks hatched during March 2009, they totalled 40.1 million, up one per cent from March 2008. Eggs in incubators amounted 37.6 million on 1 April 2009, up slightly from a year ago.
