Consumption Of
Eggs Lags As
Population Gains
Despite United States popu
lation increase of 42 million
persons during the past 15
years, our poultrymen are not
being called upon to supply
more eggs to keep pace with
thd population explosion. The
total number of eggs consum
ed by our civilian population is
about the same as it was in
1951.
“Americans are not eating
as many eggs as they used to,”
says A. Kermit Birth, exten
sion poultry marketing special
ist at Penn State University.
“In 1951, per capita consump
tion was 393 eggs. In 1966, this
figure dropped to 303 eggs per
person.”
In explaining why fewer
eggs are being eaten, the mar
keting specialist points out that
characteristics of the nation’s
population have changed. The
average age has decreased.
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There -are proportionally more
persons in the teen and sub
teen, and retirement age groups.
These two groups, Birth says,
may have different egg con
sumption patterns.
Even though consumers are
purchasing fewer eggs in re
cent years, they are buying
them for less, the specialist
points out Annual average
prices of grade A large eggs m
urban centers dropped from
about 74 cents per dozen in
1951 to a low of less than 53
cents in 1965. In 1966, the av
erage retail price was almost
60 cents per dozen.
In the past five years, the
estimated quantity of eggs
available for civilians has rang
ed between 4,920 million and
4,970 million dozen, Birth said
“If egg supplies increase
faster than the population or
per capita consumption does,
depressed prices will occur un
less the demand increases,” the
marketing official indicated
“The effect of population
growth on prices will depend
on. how well the industry co
ordinates production to mar
ket needs.”
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production, he has been associ
ated with extension work. First
as a summer assistant with
the National 4-H Center in
Washington, D.C., and since
September 1965, as county ex
tension 4-H agent in Geauge
County. Ohio. While attending
Penn Slate, he spent one sum
mer with the extension service
in Snyder County. A native of
Adams County, he has had faim
experience working with regis
tered Holstein herds in that
area.
Slusser and his wife, Kaye,
will re-locate in mid-June in
the State College area, the lo
cation of the State Holstein of
fice. As fieldman, he will be
assisting State Holstein Secre
tary, William C. Nichol, in con
ducting the association’s breed
promotion and membership
service programs.
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