January manufacturing totalled 665.1 million dozen
28 Might 2024
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US desk egg manufacturing totalled 665.1 million dozen in January, up 2.6% from January 2023, consistent with the newest USDA Farm animals, Dairy and Poultry Outlook record.
The January flock averaged 310.4 million birds, handiest fairly above ultimate yr, and 19.3 million birds beneath the 5-year reasonable for January.
The year-over-year building up in egg manufacturing is principally attributed to a median day-to-day lay price of 82.9 eggs according to 100 layers, a 2.5% building up from ultimate January.
Desk egg layer stock used to be 309.3 million birds at the first of February, down fairly each month over month and yr over yr. According to the decline in flock dimension, projected first-quarter desk egg manufacturing is adjusted down by means of 10 million dozen to at least one,940 million dozen.
The outlying quarterly projections are unchanged at 1,975 million dozen in the second one quarter, 2,015 million dozen within the 3rd, and a pair of,060 million dozen within the fourth quarter.
In overall, the 2024 desk egg projection is 7,990 million dozen, an building up of one.6% yr over yr.