Rose Acre Guthrie Center Egg Farm, Iowa

Major egg producers have farms with long sheds containing thousands of birds, as well as cold storage sheds for holding the eggs. Rose Acre Farms is the second-largest egg producer in the U.S., with 17 facilities in 6 states. Its facility in Guthrie Center, Iowa is one of the largest egg farms in the nation. Cal-Maine Foods Inc., Hillandale Farms, and Spartoe Farms are also major national egg companies. Of the approximately 33 pounds of eggs consumed per person per year in the USA, around ten pounds are from egg products in processed foods. That leaves around 90 billion shell eggs to be scrambled, omeletted, boiled, fried, or mixed into foods. Iowa is the major producer, with 53 million egg-laying chickens, followed by Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.