Egg production is up
Every five years, the Census of Agriculture releases detailed data about egg production. In 2021, the census counted 745.0 million dozen table eggs produced by nearly 10,000 reporting farms nationwide, and another 81.1 million dozen hatching eggs from just over 1,000 reporting farms.
The number of table eggs produced rose from 555.9 million dozen in 2011 to 616.7 million dozen in 2016, while the number of hatching eggs increased from 54.2 million dozen to 64.7 million dozen over that same period.
Among the dozens of table eggs in 2021, close to 4 in 10 (38.4%) came from farms in Ontario, while just over 1 in 5 (21.1%) came from Quebec, and over 1 in 10 (12.9%) were laid in British Columbia.
In fact, there were more eggs produced in the Southern Ontario census agricultural region (110.2 million dozen) in 2021 than the combined total of the Atlantic provinces (49.7 million), as well as Alberta (67.7 million), Manitoba (57.4 million), and Saskatchewan (31.4 million).
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