Egg Industry - February 2012 - 15
Sponsored by 2011 EggIndustry Survey: Top five egg producers increase share Moark moves to third position in the survey with Decoster's exit from the layer industry. By Terrence O'Keefe Egg Industry's annual survey of the nation's largest egg producers yielded estimates of the number of layers housed on December 31, 2011, for 57 companies ranging in size from a half million to 28 million birds. CalMaine Foods remained on top in the rankings with 28 million hens, and Rose Acre Farms repeated in the second position with 23.7 million layers. Moark LLC moved up in the rankings to third place with 15.7 million TOP U.S. EGG PRODUCERS Rank Number of layers on Dec 31, 2011 Rank 1 Cal-Maine Foods Company 28,000,000 29 Willamette Egg Farms 2,000,000 2 Rose Acre Farms 23,700,000 32 Konos Inc. 1,970,000 3 Moark LLC 15,700,000 33 Braswell Foods 1,900,000 4 Sparboe Farms 13,500,000 34 Demler Enterprises 1,800,000 5 Rembrandt Enterprises 12,000,000 35 J.S. West 1,783,000 6 Hillandale Farms 11,000,000 36 Sunrise Acres 1,765,000 7 Michael Foods 10,636,000 37 LaValle Egg Farms 1,700,000 8 Daybreak Foods 9,500,000 38 Berne Highway Hatchery 1,500,000 Company Number of layers on Dec 31, 2011 9 Center Fresh Group 8,400,000 39 Hamilton Farm Bureau 1,500,000 10 Midwest Poultry Services 7,600,000 40 Rindler Poultry 1,500,000 11 Fremont Farms of IA 6,400,000 41 Hemmelgarn & Sons 1,493,000 12 Hickman's Egg Ranch 6,000,000 42 Kreher Farm Fresh Eggs 1,475,000 13 ISE America 5,910,000 43 Pilgrim's Pride Corp. 1,400,000 14 Herbruck's Poultry Ranch 5,800,000 44 Cooper Farms 1,302,640 15 Kreider Farms 4,700,000 45 Ritewood Egg Farm 1,250,000 16 Wabash Valley Produce 4,364,322 46 L & R Farms 1,200,000 17 Sunrise Farms Inc 4,250,000 47 Wilcox Farms 1,200,000 18 Weaver Brothers 4,000,000 48 Country Charm Egg Distributors 1,161,400 19 National Food Corp 3,800,000 49 Morning Fresh Farms 1,100,000 20 Fort Recovery Equity 3,745,000 50 Pine Hill Egg Ranch 1,100,000 21 Maxim Egg Farm 3,600,000 51 Pearl Valley Eggs 1,070,000 22 Dutchland Farms * 3,250,000 52 Sunrise Farms LLC 1,000,000 23 Creighton Bros. 3,000,000 53 Delta Egg Farms 960,000 24 Mahard Egg Farms 2,800,000 54 Dakota Layers 940,000 25 Valley Fresh Foods 2,650,000 55 SKS Enterprises 850,000 26 RW Sauder 2,500,000 56 Hillside Poultry Farms Inc 695,000 27 S & R Egg Farms 2,300,000 57 Egg Innovations 28 UEMC (Dixie Egg/Foodonics) 2,200,000 29 Esbenshade Farms 2,000,000 29 Gemperle Enterprises 2,000,000 500,000 251,420,362 * Dutchland Farms is a division of Wenger Feeds The top 10 egg producers housed 56% of the survey's total of 251.4 million hens on December 31, 2011.
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