New York milk production rises more than 1 percent in March 2025

Dairy farms in New York state produced 1.395 billion pounds of milk in March 2025, up 1.3 percent from 1.377 billion pounds of milk in the year-prior month, according to the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on April 22. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,215 pounds in the third month of 2025, up 1.4 percent from 2,185 pounds in March 2024. The number of milk cows on farms in the Empire State totaled 630,000 head in March 2025, unchanged from the year-ago month, NASS reported. Milk production in the nation’s 24 dairy producing states totaled 19.05 billion pounds in March of this year, up 1 percent from 18.86 billion pounds in March 2024, according to the USDA.