We are the North Carolina Egg Association. We work with farmers all over the state of North Carolina to provide the people of NC with one of the healthiest foods.
Egg production is an important segment of the agriculture industry in North Carolina. The Egg Industry ranks 7th in North Carolina commodity receipts. Our egg farmers are located all over the state from Hyde County to Cherokee County. We have approximately 9 million birds which lay about 7 ½ million eggs a day, meaning that is about one bird per person in North Carolina. North Carolina has egg producers who have a variety of egg production systems, offering consumers choices of types and prices of eggs. There are modern cage systems, free running houses, vegetarian feed, organic feed, white and brown eggs and specialty branded eggs, such as Eggland’s Best being produced in NC.