Poultry is a major part of the U.S. food supply, with broilers, eggs, turkeys, and other chickens contributing $81.658 billion in production and sales value in 2025. The figures below show how output is distributed across states, how much poultry enters domestic and export markets, and what recent forecasts indicate for eggs and poultry worldwide.
Contents
- U.S. poultry value and output
- Where broilers are produced
- Turkey production by state
- Non-broiler chickens and production losses
- Egg production and value
- Trade, consumption, prices, and forecasts
- Global poultry and egg production
U.S. poultry value and output
The USDA’s Poultry - Production and Value 2025 Summary valued total U.S. poultry production and non-broiler chicken sales at $81.658 billion in 2025, compared with $70.314 billion in 2024. The total includes the value of broilers, eggs, turkeys, and non-broiler chickens.
Broilers accounted for 55% of the 2025 total, eggs for 39%, turkeys for 7%, and non-broiler chickens for less than 1%. Those shares describe the composition of the USDA’s reported value total; they are not a measure of the number of birds or pounds produced.
U.S. broiler output reached 9.397 billion birds and 62.245 billion pounds in 2025. Turkey output was 193.5 million birds and 6.218 billion pounds. All-egg production reached 105.247 billion eggs, equivalent to 8.7705 billion dozen.
Value changed differently by product between 2024 and 2025:
| Product | 2024 value | 2025 value |
|---|---|---|
| Broilers | $45.435 billion | $44.567 billion |
| Turkeys | $3.689 billion | $5.584 billion |
| Eggs | $21.161 billion | $31.501 billion |
| Non-broiler chickens | $29.734 million | $6.913 million |
These are production and sales values reported by the USDA, not retail grocery sales. In particular, the egg value rose from $21.161 billion in 2024 to $31.501 billion in 2025, while broiler value declined from $45.435 billion to $44.567 billion.
Where broilers are produced
Broiler production is concentrated in a group of leading states. The 2025 USDA summary reports both bird counts and live weight, which helps explain why production rankings can look different depending on whether the measure is birds, pounds, or value.
North Carolina produced 984.7 million broilers weighing 8.272 billion pounds and valued at $5.922 billion. Georgia produced more birds, at 1.317 billion, but its total weight was 5.847 billion pounds and its value was $3.616 billion. Alabama produced 1.184 billion broilers weighing 4.746 billion pounds and valued at $3.615 billion.
Arkansas produced 1.053 billion broilers, 5.578 billion pounds, and $3.363 billion in value. Mississippi produced 701.1 million birds weighing 4.697 billion pounds and valued at $3.363 billion. Texas produced 731.8 million broilers weighing 5.049 billion pounds and valued at $3.615 billion.
Other reported production areas included Delaware, with 263.0 million broilers, 1.450 billion pounds, and $1.015 billion in value. South Carolina produced 237.0 million birds, 1.730 billion pounds, and $1.239 billion. The grouped California, Tennessee, and West Virginia reporting area produced 681.6 million broilers weighing 3.870 billion pounds and valued at $2.771 billion.
The state figures illustrate why bird count alone is an incomplete production measure. North Carolina’s 984.7 million birds were associated with 8.272 billion pounds, while Georgia’s 1.317 billion birds were associated with 5.847 billion pounds. The USDA reports these as separate measures, so comparisons should retain the original units rather than treating bird totals as interchangeable with pounds.
The Poultry - Production and Value 2025 Summary is the source for all of these 2025 state totals.
Turkey production by state
The turkey state data cover September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2025. Minnesota raised 33.5 million turkeys producing 971.500 million pounds valued at $872.407 million. North Carolina raised 28.0 million turkeys producing 1.095 billion pounds; the supplied USDA state figure does not include a value in this comparison.
Arkansas raised 21.5 million turkeys producing 389.150 million pounds valued at $349.457 million. Indiana raised 20.0 million turkeys producing 826.000 million pounds valued at $741.748 million. Iowa raised 10.8 million turkeys producing 471.960 million pounds valued at $423.820 million.
California and Michigan each raised 4.3 million turkeys. California’s output was 82.990 million pounds valued at $74.525 million, while Michigan’s output was 184.040 million pounds valued at $165.268 million.
Across the United States, turkey production fell from 6.5756 billion pounds in 2024 to 6.2177 billion pounds in 2025. The national comparison uses calendar-year totals in the USDA summary, while the state production period is September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2025; those time definitions should not be treated as identical.
The Poultry - Production and Value 2025 Summary provides the state and national turkey figures. For a cooking audience, these numbers describe the scale behind the turkey supply, but they do not indicate the size, cut, or retail availability of any particular bird.
Non-broiler chickens and production losses
The 2025 USDA non-broiler chicken disposition table reports 175 million non-broiler chickens sold, compared with 182 million in 2024. Non-broiler chickens sold for slaughter totaled 105.247 million head in 2025, with live weight sold for slaughter totaling 8.771 billion pounds.
The same series reports 109.129 million non-broiler chickens lost in 2024 and 105.247 million in the 2025 table’s disposition series. The table’s 2025 U.S. sales value was $6.913 million. Because the disposition series contains different categories and year references, these figures should be read as reported measures rather than combined into an unsupported loss rate.
The USDA Economic Research Service’s Poultry & Eggs - Sector at a Glance describes market broiler chickens as generally slaughtered before two months of age in the United States. Turkeys often reach about four months before slaughter. These are current sector descriptions, not production totals for a specific farm or year.
Egg production and value
The USDA’s Poultry - Production and Value 2024 Summary reports 108,514.9 million U.S. eggs in 2024, down from 109,619.5 million in 2023. The 2025 USDA summary reports 105,246.5 million eggs, valued at $31.501 billion.
State production in 2024 was led by Iowa, which produced 13,437.6 million eggs valued at $2.482 billion. Indiana produced 10,702.0 million eggs valued at $1.983 billion. Georgia produced 5,224.4 million eggs valued at $1.025 billion, and Arkansas produced 3,896.7 million eggs valued at $824.208 million.
Wisconsin produced 2,428.5 million eggs valued at $450.162 million. California produced 2,311.2 million eggs valued at $621.093 million. Colorado produced 1,025.8 million eggs valued at $171.366 million.
The 2025 national egg total is reported as 105.247 billion eggs in the Poultry - Production and Value 2025 Summary, or 105,246.5 million eggs in the same report’s detailed presentation. The 2024 state values come from the 2024 summary and should not be mistaken for 2025 state estimates.
Trade, consumption, prices, and forecasts
Poultry has a substantial role in U.S. meat consumption. According to the USDA Economic Research Service’s Poultry & Eggs, poultry meat accounted for 51% of total U.S. red-meat-and-poultry disappearance in 2024. The United States exported 13.6% of poultry meat produced in 2024.
Product-specific export shares were 14.3% of domestic broiler production, 9.5% of domestic turkey production, and 2.6% of domestic egg production in 2024. The egg figure includes hatching and table eggs. These percentages measure shares of domestic production exported, not the share of a household’s grocery purchases that comes from imports.
The September 2025 Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook reported July 2025 broiler production of 4,146 million pounds, up 1.8% from July 2024. Broiler-type chicks hatched totaled 880.4 million, up 1.2% year over year. July table-egg production totaled 623.7 million dozen, down 3.0% year over year.
USDA forecasts in that outlook placed 2025 table-egg production at 7,398 million dozen and 2026 production at 7,950 million dozen. The forecast average egg price was 403.7 cents per dozen for 2025 and 211.3 cents for 2026. These are forecasts, not final realized prices or production totals.
The September 2025 outlook projected 2025 table-egg production 4.4% below the 2024 total. It also reported July 2025 egg and egg-product imports of 20.2 million shell-egg dozen-equivalent: 11.2 million dozen of shell eggs and 9.0 million dozen-equivalent of egg products.
Global poultry and egg production
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Agricultural production statistics 2010–2024 reports world meat production of 374 million tonnes in 2024, up 7 million tonnes from 2023. The three most-produced meat commodities worldwide in 2024 were chicken, pig, and cattle meat.
Global egg production reached 100 million tonnes in 2024, with hen eggs accounting for 94% of that total. The figure covers world production and is not directly comparable with the U.S. egg totals reported in billions of eggs or dozen.
For the U.S. market, the September 2025 USDA outlook reported 713.5 million table-egg layer birds in July 2025, with an average lay rate of 82.2 eggs per 100 layers per day. It also reported 713,500 cases of large eggs in U.S. inventory on September 1, 2025, up 8.2% from a year earlier.
Looking ahead, the USDA Economic Research Service expects poultry to remain the world’s largest imported livestock commodity by volume over the next 10 years, according to Poultry & Eggs. That is a long-range expectation rather than a measured result for a completed year, so it belongs alongside the production forecasts rather than with historical totals.