Milk prices at the producer level in New York state stayed high in the latest month as inflation pressures continued. New York dairy farms in July were paid an average of $26.70 per hundredweight of milk, down 2.2 percent from $27.30 in June, but up 47.5 percent from the $18.10 average in July 2021. The […]
Milk prices at the producer level in New York state stayed high in the latest month as inflation pressures continued.
New York dairy farms in July were paid an average of $26.70 per hundredweight of milk, down 2.2 percent from $27.30 in June, but up 47.5 percent from the $18.10 average in July 2021.
The data is from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on Sept. 19.
New York dairy farms produced 1.329 billion pounds of milk in August, up 2 percent from 1.303 billion pounds in the year-prior month. Milk production per cow in the Empire State averaged 2,130 pounds in the eighth month of the year, up 2.7 percent from 2,075 pounds in August 2021. The number of milk cows on farms in New York totaled 624,000 head this August, down 0.6 percent from 628,000 head in the year-ago month, NASS reported.
