Table Egg Industry Report - October 2014 to October 2015

摘要

The past year's most significant event was the devastating outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the central US. The outbreak began in commercial layers in Wisconsin in mid-April and ended in mid-June in Iowa. During this period of time, Iowa lost about 26 million layers, Minnesota 3.6 million, Nebraska 3.5 million, South Dakota 1.3 million, and Wisconsin 1.1 million for a total of 35.6 million. This is about 10% of the nation's egg layer population. Also, about 5 million pullets were lost to the disease or eradication effort.