New York egg production dips 1.5 percent in July

Farms in New York state produced 147.7 million eggs in July, down 1.5 percent from 149.9 million eggs in the year-ago month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.

The number of layers in the Empire State averaged 5.75 million in the seventh month of this year, up 0.5 percent from 5.72 million layers in the year-prior month. Egg production per 100 layers slipped 2 percent to 2,569 eggs in July compared to 2,621 eggs in July 2022.

In neighboring Pennsylvania, egg production rose almost 8 percent to more than 715 million eggs in July from just under 660 million eggs a year before.

U.S. egg production totaled 9.37 billion eggs in July, up 3.5 percent from nearly 9.06 billion eggs in July 2022.