Wisconsin Egg Production Down From Last Year
Sunday, August 30th, 2015 -- 9:22 AM
Wisconsin egg production during July was 107 million eggs, up nine percent from the previous month, but still 10 percent lower from last year.According to the latest Chickens and Eggs release from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, the average number of all layers on hand in July was 4.31 million, up 4 percent from last month, but down 12 percent from last year. Eggs per 100 layers were 2,484, up five percent from June, and two percent more from July 2014.
Nationally, egg production totaled 7.67 billion during 2015, down 10 percent from last year. Production included 6.53 billion table eggs, and 1.14 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.06 billion were broiler-type and 83 million were egg-type. The total number of layers averaged 329 million, down nine percent from last year.
July egg production per 100 layers was 2,333 eggs, down one percent from 2014.
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