Feb. broken shell eggs down 2% from 2008

There were 148 million dozen shell eggs broken during February 2009, down 2% from February 2008, according to a report released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service March 31.

That number is 9% less than the 163 million shell eggs broken the previous month.

For the calendar year through February, 311 million dozen shell eggs were broken, down 4% from same period a year earlier.