New York egg production edges up less than 1 percent in May

New York farms produced 147.8 million eggs in May, up 0.7 percent from 146.7 million eggs in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.

The number of layers in the Empire State averaged nearly 5.82 million in May, up 4.3 percent from almost 5.58 million layers a year prior. May egg production per 100 layers dropped nearly 3.4 percent to 2,542 eggs from 2,631 eggs in May 2020.

In neighboring Pennsylvania, farms produced almost 751 million eggs during May, down more than 3 percent from more than 775 million eggs a year before.

U.S. egg production totaled 9.38 billion eggs in May, up more than 2.8 percent from 9.12 billion eggs in May 2020.