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State Milk Production Continues to Trail Last Year's Output
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 04/22/2014

Wisconsin dairy farmers produced less milk in March compared to the same month a year earlier, making it the fifth consecutive month with lower year-to-year output. According to the USDA's monthly milk production report, the Dairy State harvested 2.36 billion pounds of milk last month, down 1.6 percent from last March, but more than February's 2.12 billion pounds.

Nationally, 16.7 billion pounds of milk was produced in the 23 major dairy states, which was up 1.1 percent higher than in 2013.

California continues to have the highest total production with about 3.81 billion pounds. Colorado had the greatest increase in year-to-year output as that state produced 297 million pounds of milk in March, up 6.5 percent from the same month last year.

Sixteen of the major milk producing states had an increase in production when compared with last year, while six had a decrease in total output. Only one state, New York, had no change in year-to-year production.

Meanwhile, the number of milk cows in the major dairy states totaled 8.51 million head, 1,000 head than February 2014. The average number of milk cows on Wisconsin farms for the month was 1.27 million head. Production per cow averaged 1,860 pounds.


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