New York dairy farms produced 77.4 million pounds of cheese (excluding cottage cheese) in September, up 10.1 percent from the year-ago period, but 0.5 percent below August’s production level, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
Butter production in New York totaled 1.86 million pounds in September, up 3.7 percent from September 2016, and up 36.3 percent from August 2017.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 33.2 million pounds of cheese (excluding cottage cheese) in September, up 7.3 percent from a year ago, but 3.2 percent below the prior month’s production. Butter production in the Keystone State totaled 6.37 million pounds in September, down 9.1 percent from September 2016, but up 48.3 percent from August 2017, according to the USDA.
