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Updated at 11:14 a.m., Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Hawaii December egg output down 14% from year ago

Hawaii egg production totaled 6.4 million in December 2007, down 14 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The number of layers was estimated at 360,000 in December, down 12 percent from December 2006. The average lay rate for December was 1,788 per 100 layers, down 2 percent from a year earlier.