New York dairy farms produced 1.29 billion pounds of milk in January, up 2.2 percent from more than 1.26 billion pounds in the year-prior period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. Production per cow in the state averaged 2,065 pounds in January, up 2.5 percent from 2,015 pounds a year ago. The […]
New York dairy farms produced 1.29 billion pounds of milk in January, up 2.2 percent from more than 1.26 billion pounds in the year-prior period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
Production per cow in the state averaged 2,065 pounds in January, up 2.5 percent from 2,015 pounds a year ago.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 625,000 head in January, down from 627,000 head in January 2019, NASS reported.
On the milk-price front, New York farmers in December were paid an average of $20.50 per hundredweight, unchanged from November, but $3.10 higher than prices in December 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 866 million pounds of milk in January, down 0.8 percent from 873 million pounds a year earlier, according to the USDA.
