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Pace of Wisconsin Milk Production Still Lower Than 2013
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 05/20/2014

For the sixth consecutive month, Wisconsin dairy farmers produced less milk in April compared to the same month a year earlier. According to the USDA's monthly milk production report, the Dairy State harvested 2.30 billion pounds of milk last month, down a slight 0.3 percent from last April, and lower than March's 2.36 billion pounds (which had one more day on the calendar).

Nationally, 16.3 billion pounds of milk was produced in the 23 major dairy states, which was up 1.2 percent higher than in 2013.

California continues to have the highest total production with about 3.67 billion pounds. Texas had the greatest increase in year-to-year output as that state produced 887 million pounds of milk in April, up 8.7 percent from the same month last year.

Seventeen of the major milk producing states had an increase in production when compared with last year, while six had a decrease in total output.

Meanwhile, the number of milk cows in the major dairy states totaled 8.53 million head, 10,000 head than March 2014. The average number of milk cows on Wisconsin farms for the month was 1.26 million head. Production per cow averaged 1,815 pounds.

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