NYS milk production decreased in November
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WKTV News
Story Created:
Dec 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM EDT
Story Updated:
Dec 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM EDT
NEW YORK STATE - New York dairy herds produced 1,013 million pounds of milk during November, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA says that milk cows were down and production per cow was down from the previous year, resulting in a 1.3 percent decrease in milk production compared to November 2010. The number of milk cows averaged 610,000 head, down slightly from November of the previous year.
Milk per cow averaged 1,660 pounds, down 1 percent from last year at this time.
Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $21.00 per hundredweight of milk sold during November, down 70 cents from October but $1.60 more than November a year ago.
Milk production in the 23 major States during November totaled 14.7 billion pounds, up 2.2 percent from November 2010. October revised production at 15.2 billion pounds, was up 2.5 percent from October 2010. The October revision represented an increase of 1 million pounds or less than 0.1 percent from last month's preliminary production
estimate.
Production per cow in the 23 major States averaged 1,738 pounds for November, 16 pounds above November 2010. The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major States was 8.48 million head, 108,000 head more than November 2010, but unchanged from October 2011.
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