USDA Weekly Shell Egg Inventory 03/16 14:05

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National Weekly Shell Egg Inventory
                                                                      03/16/2026
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WEEKLY SHELL EGG INVENTORIES:
Total Stocks on Hand Available for Marketing (30-dozen cases in thousands)
 
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                     |SW      SC      MW      SE      NE      | 6-AreaNW      
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Extra Large     Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Jumbo           Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Large           Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Medium          Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Small           Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Ungraded        Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
Misc            Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
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Total           Total|145.8   263.9   578.2   288.1   198.2   | 1511.237.1    
             % Change|13.1%   -8.4%   1.9%    2.5%    9.8%    | 1.3%  -19.3%  
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           Cases           Percent Change
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                Shell Egg Inventory   1511.2               1.3%
           Breaking Stock Inventory   307.1               -7.8%
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SPECIALTY / ORGANIC / CAGE FREE:
Stocks on Hand to be Marketed as Specialty/Organic/Cage Free from totals above 
(30-dozen cases in thousands)
 
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                     |SW      SC      MW      SE      NE      | 6-AreaNW      
                     |________________________________________________|________
Organic         Total|14.4    9.5     35.4    16.1    24.2    | 99.7  0.1     
             % Change|89.5%   0.6%    -0.2%   16.9%   1.1%    | 10.3% -33.0%  
Specialty       Total|13.2    6.3     0       8.5     14.3    | 44.9  2.5     
             % Change|0.3%    53.9%   -10.1%  17.0%   | 6.9%  -15.8%  
Cage-Free       Total|113     30.3    250.3   22      7.7     | 450   26.7    
             % Change|6.7%    -13.0%  3.5%    47.4%   12.0%   | 3.7%  -10.0%  
N/A             Total|        |       
             % Change|        |       
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Appendix  - Region descriptions:
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Southwest (SW)
South Central (SC)
Midwest (MW)
Southeast (SE)
Northeast (NE)
Northwest (NW)

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