New York dairy farms produced 1.14 billion pounds of milk in February, up 8.3 percent from the year-ago period, the USDA’s New York field office reported.
Production per cow averaged 1,845 pounds in February, up 130 pounds from February 2015.
The number of milk cows on farms in the New York state totaled 620,000 head this February, up 4,000 head from a year ago, but unchanged from last month, the field office reported.
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New York daily farmers received $17 per hundredweight of milk in January, down $1.80 from December 2015 and off $1.70 from January 2015, according to the field office.
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