ALBANY, N.Y. — New York dairy farms produced 1.22 billion pounds of milk in January, up 4.1 percent from the year-ago period, the USDA’s New York field office reported.
Production per cow in the Empire State averaged 1,970 pounds in January, up 65 pounds from a year earlier.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head in January, up 4,000 head from a year ago, but unchanged from the prior month, the field office said.
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New York dairy farmers received an average price of $18.80 per hundredweight of milk sold in December, down $1.20 from November and off $3.50 from December 2014, according to the field office.
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