Wednesday, October 5, 2011

US shell eggs broken up 3% over 2010

U.S. shell eggs broken totaled 182 million dozen during August 2011, up 3% from August 2010 and 1% above the 180 million broken in July, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
During the calendar year 2011 through August, shell eggs broken totaled 1.39 billion dozen, up 2% from the comparable period in 2010. To date, cumulative total edible product from eggs broken in 2011 was 1.8 billion pounds, up 2% from 2010. Of that total, 1.09 billion pounds were whole eggs, 468.3 million pounds were egg whites and 239 million pounds were egg yolks.
For more information on egg prices and production, see http://www.wattagnet.com/marketdata.html.

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