Feb 5, 2024 · 1. Cal-Maine Foods, 44.51 million. Cal-Maine Foods is the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States. Its operations consist of hatching chicks; growing and maintaining flocks of pullets, layers and breeders; manufacturing feed; and producing, processing, packaging and distributing shell eggs.

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Dec 30, 2024 · 2. Top 25 US egg producers in 2024. Learn more about the companies WATT Global Media ranked as the top US egg producers in 2024.. 3. Cultivated meat ban under consideration in Michigan. Livestock and poultry producer Rep. …

Dec 25, 2024 · Respeggt’s in-ovo technology will be installed in a Hendrix Genetics hatchery in 2025. The Nebraska facility plans to hatch the in-ovo sexed eggs, all from white Dekalb layers, at the end of February 2025. The chicks will be transferred to egg producer MPS Egg Farms, which works with Dutch egg ...

Dec 26, 2024 · USDA FSIS further introduced additional proposed guidance on Salmonella in 2024 that had a direct impact on the commercial poultry industry.In April, the agency declared Salmonella an adulterant in raw breaded stuffed chicken products when they exceed a specific threshold (1 colony forming unit (CFU) per gram or higher) for Salmonella contamination.

Oct 21, 2024 · Four workers a commercial egg farm in Franklin County, Washington, have tested presumptively positive for H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported.. The farm where they were working had a flock of 839,700 laying hens affected by HPAI, with that case being confirmed on October 15.

Nov 20, 2024 · BRF has signed an agreement with OSI Group subsidiary Henan Best Foods to purchase a processed foods plant in the Henan Province of China.. Th potential transaction is valued at US$43 million, BRF revealed in an announcement to the market, which can be found on the company’s investor relations webpage.

Nov 15, 2024 · For the company’s fourth quarter financial results ending September 30, 2024, Post Holdings reported net sales of $2.0 billion and an operating profit of $190.9 million, an increase from the fourth quarter of 2023 which saw $1.9 billion and $153.0 million respectively.

Feb 5, 2024 · All Top 5 egg producer flocks grew in 2023. The Top 5 egg producers in the U.S. saw growth in their layer flock size, according to the 2023 and 2024 Top Egg Company surveys.. Cal-Maine Foods continues to be the largest egg producer in the country, with a reported 44.51 million layers housed, a 1.2% increase compared with last year.

Nov 1, 2024 · Echo Lake Foods hired Kathy Brodhagen as its new CEO effective, September 21, 2024.. Brodhagen brings over 30 years of food industry experience to the company having grown up in her family’s egg products business prior to expanding her career.