united states department of agriculture www ers usda gov outlook report from the economic research service organic poultry and eggs capture high price premiums growing share specialty markets lydia oberholtzer catherine greene enrique lopez 1 abstract egg in are expanding rapidly statistics for sector especially number broilers also signal domestic supply this examines trends animal numbers prices comparisons between conventional show significant both keywords production note a web data product with monthly 2004 06 is available at organicprices current weekly ams mnreports aj_py050 txt acknowledgments authors thank holly born attra national sustainable information michael sheats agricultural marketing market news russ tronstad university arizona & resource economics demaris wilson program janet perry carolyn dimitri david harvey stephen martinez