Georgia and Alabama Top Two States for Broiler Chicks Hatched in 2011

On April 20, 2012, in Economics, by Debra Newman

Georgia and Alabama were the top two states for hatching broiler chicks in 2011, according to Hatchery Production 2011 Summary issued this week by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Georgia with 1,412,278,000 chicks hatched accounted for 15.6 percent of the total U.S. broiler chicks hatched last year while Alabama’s hatchings of 1,255,754,000 chicks represented 13.9 percent of the U.S. total. Georgia increased hatchings in 2011 by 2.2 percent while Alabama slipped 3.7 percent.

Four of the 16 individually-listed states increased their hatchings last year compared with 2010. States with percentage increases were Pennsylvania, 3.0 percent; North Carolina, 2.3 percent; Georgia, 2.2 percent; and Florida, 0.8 percent. Broiler chicks hatched in the United States in 2011 totaled 9,055,976,000, 2.4 percent less than the 9,276,240,000 in 2010. The 19 states in the NASS weekly hatchery estimating program accounted for 96.7 percent of the U.S. total in 2011, the same percentage as in 2010.

Broiler-type chicks hatched in 2010 and 2011 were as follows:

Broiler Chicks Hatched In Selected States,2010 and 2011
State	2010	2011	Change
	-1,000 chicks-	-1,000 chicks-	-percent-
Georgia	1,382,425	1,412,278	2.2
Alabama	1,304,132	1,255,754	-3.7
Arkansas	1,044,084	963,668	-7.7
North Carolina	840,501	860,120	2.3
Mississippi	834,019	802,844	-3.7
Texas	685,270	649,204	-5.3
Missouri	*	341,963	*
Kentucky	337,627	332,495	-1.5
Maryland	350,534	328,342	-6.3
Oklahoma	298,401	294,883	-1.2
Virginia	274,551	266,970	-2.8
South Carolina	243,128	229,125	-5.8
Pennsylvania	160,894	165,777	3.0
Delaware	163,120	148,978	-8.7
Louisiana	149,469	147,041	-1.6
Florida	57,225	57,693	0.8
California, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia ^*	844,886	490,707	-41.9
19 States total ¹	8,970,266	8,747,842	-2.5
Other States ²	305,974	308,134	0.7
United States	9,276,240	9,055,976	-2.4

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