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State Milk Production Drops, Again
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 08/19/2011
For fourth consecutive month, Wisconsin dairy farmers produced less milk on their operations than they did the same time a year earlier. But the USDA announced that total milk production for the 23 major dairy states in July rose by a slight 0.8 percent from 2010 at 15.4 billion pounds. That figure was lower than
June's production of 16.5 billion.
Wisconsin produced 2.18 billion pounds of milk in July--down 3.5 percent below last year, and less than June's 2.2 billion pounds. California continues to have the highest total production with about 3.5 billion pounds. Texas had the highest percent-increase for the month as that state put out 8.3 percent more milk
than last year at 798 million pounds.
Meanwhile, the number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major states was 8.47 million head, 93,000 head more than July 2010, and 8,000 head more than June 2011. Wisconsin was milking about 1.26 million head of dairy cattle during the month, with total production averaging 1,730 pounds per cow for the
month--which was about 65 pounds less than last year's average for June. The national per-cow average was down five pound at 1,824 pounds per animal.
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