Wisconsin Ag Connection - State, National Milk Production Up During June Dairy Month

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State, National Milk Production Up During June Dairy Month
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 07/21/2014

For only the second time this year, Wisconsin dairy farmers produced more milk in June compared to the same time a year earlier. According to the USDA's monthly milk production report, the Dairy State harvested 2.31 billion pounds of milk last month, up 0.6 percent from June 2013, but lower than May's 2.38 billion pounds (which has one more day on the calendar).

Nationally, 16.2 billion pounds of milk was produced in the 23 major dairy states, which was up two percent higher than in 2013, but less than the previous month's 16.9 billion.

California continues to have the highest total production with about 3.54 billion pounds. Colorado had the greatest increase in year-to-year output as that state produced 306 million pounds of milk in June, up 9.7 percent from the same month last year.

All of the major milk producing states had an increase in production in June when compared with last year, with the exception of Ohio.

Meanwhile, the number of milk cows in the major dairy states totaled 8.57 million head, 11,000 head more than May 2014. The average number of milk cows on Wisconsin farms for the month was 1.26 million head. Production per cow averaged 1,825 pounds.

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