New York milk prices rise slightly in latest month

Milk prices in New York state rose in the latest month for which data is available, according to the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on May 20. New York dairy farms were paid an average of $22.40 per hundredweight of milk in March, up 1.8 percent from $22 in February, and nearly 1.4 percent higher than $22.10 in March 2023. Dairy farms in New York state produced 1.342 billion pounds of milk in April, the same amount they produced in the year-prior month, according to the NASS report. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,130 pounds in the fourth month of 2024, also unchanged from April 2023. The number of milk cows on farms in the Empire State totaled 630,000 head in April, the same as in April of last year, NASS reported.