Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $25.30 per hundredweight of milk they sold during August, up 40 cents from July and up $4.70, or 23 percent, from August 2013, according to the USDA’s New York field office.
New York dairy farms produced 1.18 billion pounds of milk in August, up 2.7 percent from the year-ago month, according to the field office.
Production per cow averaged 1,920 pounds in August, up 35 pounds from a year ago. The number of milk cows on New York state farms totaled 615,000 head in August. That was 5,000 head more than in August 2013, but unchanged from July 2014.
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Milk production in the nation’s 23 major dairy states totaled 16.2 billion pounds during August, up 2.6 percent from a year earlier, the USDA reported.