Hawai'i beef and pork production barely rose in August, but egg production fell during the month, according to a monthly livestock report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Ranchers increased beef production in August by 1,000 pounds, or 0.2 percent, to 611,000 pounds. The number of cattle slaughtered was up 3 percent to 4,100 head from a year earlier, and the average weight per animal was up 8 percent.

The results were similar for pig farmers, who increased production last month by 1,000 pounds, or 0.3 percent, to 299,000 pounds over the same month last year. The number of hogs slaughtered fell by 11 percent to 1,700, but the average weight per animal rose 9 percent.

Local farms produced 6.1 million eggs in August, down 10 percent from the same month a year earlier. There was an 11 percent decline in the number of chickens laying eggs, though the rate of egg laying by the poultry rose 0.3 percent.