Milk prices at the producer level rose sharply in New York state in the latest month for which data is available. New York dairy farms in January were paid an average of $24.70 per hundredweight of milk, up $2.70, or more than 12 percent, from $22 in December. Milk prices received were up $7.60, or […]
Milk prices at the producer level rose sharply in New York state in the latest month for which data is available.
New York dairy farms in January were paid an average of $24.70 per hundredweight of milk, up $2.70, or more than 12 percent, from $22 in December. Milk prices received were up $7.60, or more than 44 percent, from the $17.10 average in January 2021.
The data comes from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on March 21.
New York dairy farms produced 1.184 billion pounds of milk in February, down 0.8 percent from 1.193 billion pounds in the year-prior month. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 1,910 pounds in February, up slightly from 1,905 pounds a year ago. The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head in February, off nearly 1 percent from 626,000 head in February 2021, NASS reported.
