USDA Weekly Shell Egg Inventory 05/04 14:35

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National Weekly Shell Egg Inventory
                                                                      05/04/2026
Agricultural Marketing Service
Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News
  
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|152.5   278.5   594.8   295.7   211.6   | 1586  52.9    
             % Change|-7.7%   -9.4%   -3.6%   0.6%    5.9%    | -3.0% 3.7%    
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           Cases           Percent Change
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                Shell Egg Inventory   1586                -3.0%
           Breaking Stock Inventory   332.5               -4.6%
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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|23.8    10.2    35.5    9.8     27.2    | 106.7 0.2     
             % Change|1.5%    13.8%   1.5%    -4.7%   7.5%    | 3.4%  -24.5%  
Specialty       Total|13.2    2.6     0       7.2     14.6    | 38.4  0.9     
             % Change|-2.5%   -23.5%  -18.8%  10.5%   | -4.1% -20.8%  
Cage-Free       Total|112.3   33.3    234.8   16.3    8.6     | 448.1 42.8    
             % Change|-10.8%  -12.8%  3.4%    0.6%    6.2%    | -1.6% 7.5%    
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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