ALBANY, N.Y. — New York dairy farms produced 1.22 billion pounds of milk in April, up 5.3 percent from the year-ago period, the USDA’s New York field office reported.
Production per cow averaged 1,965 pounds in April, up 90 pounds from a year prior.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head in April, up by 3,000 from April 2015, but unchanged from March 2016, the field office reported.
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New York dairy farmers received $16.20 per hundredweight of milk this March, down 50 cents from February, and off $1.40 from March 2015 prices, according to the field office.
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