New York dairy farms produced 1.28 billion pounds of milk in August, up 1.7 percent from 1.26 billion in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. Production per cow in the state averaged 2,055 pounds in August, up 2 percent from 2,015 pounds a year prior. The number of milk […]
New York dairy farms produced 1.28 billion pounds of milk in August, up 1.7 percent from 1.26 billion in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
Production per cow in the state averaged 2,055 pounds in August, up 2 percent from 2,015 pounds a year prior.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 622,000 head in August, down from 624,000 head in August 2017, NASS reported.
The average milk price received by New York dairy farmers in July 2018 was $16.10 per hundredweight, down 80 cents from June 2018 and off $1.90 from July 2017.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 882 million pounds of milk in August, down 2.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the report.
