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New York milk producer prices dip nearly 3 percent from prior month

Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month but prices moderated from previous months. New York dairy farms were paid an average of $26 per hundredweight of milk in November, down 2.6 percent from $26.70 in October, but were still 22 percent higher than the $21.30 average […]

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Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month but prices moderated from previous months.

New York dairy farms were paid an average of $26 per hundredweight of milk in November, down 2.6 percent from $26.70 in October, but were still 22 percent higher than the $21.30 average in November 2021.

The data is from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on Jan. 25. The year-over-year price increase was lower than the 34 percent rise seen in the preceding month’s NASS report.

New York dairy farms produced
1.323 billion pounds of milk in December, up 2.8 percent from 1.287 billion pounds in the year-earlier month. Milk production per cow in the Empire State averaged 2,100 pounds in the final month of 2022, up 1.2 percent from 2,075 pounds in December 2021. The number of milk cows on farms in New York totaled 630,000 head in December, up 1.6 percent from 620,000 head in the year-prior month, NASS reported.

Jornal Staff