It's incredible. It's edible.

Did you Nebraska is the eighth-largest egg producer in the country?

Or that some 3 billion -- yes billion -- eggs are produced here each year?

Those eggs don't typically show up in cartons in the grocery store. Instead, they are processed by Nebraska companies – known as “egg breakers” – and turned into high-value pasteurized refrigerated liquid eggs and frozen, dried and specialty products.

"These further processed products are then sold all over the world, in many cases to exacting specifications,” said Bob Dickey, a Nebraska Corn Board director and corn grower from Laurel. “These types of egg products find their way into the foodservice sector, as well as into items like frozen breakfast foods and bakery goods found in the grocery store.”

The Corn Board's Kelly Brunkhorst said the egg industry contributes about $100 million to the Nebraska economy each year -- with part of that contribution coming through the consumption of more than 10 million bushels of corn and the growing usage of distillers grains.

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