Milk prices at the producer level continued to increase in New York state in the latest month for which data is available. New York dairy farms in February were paid an average of $25.40 per hundredweight of milk, up 70 cents, or nearly 3 percent, from $24.70 in January. Milk prices received were up $8, […]
Milk prices at the producer level continued to increase in New York state in the latest month for which data is available.
New York dairy farms in February were paid an average of $25.40 per hundredweight of milk, up 70 cents, or nearly 3 percent, from $24.70 in January. Milk prices received were up $8, or 46 percent, from the $17.40 average in February 2021.
The data comes from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on April 20.
New York dairy farms produced
1.327 billion pounds of milk in March, down 1 percent from 1.340 billion pounds in the year-ago month. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,140 pounds in March, unchanged from a year prior. The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head in March, down 1 percent from 626,000 head in March 2021, NASS reported.