Milk prices at the producer level kept going up in New York state in the latest month for which data is available. New York dairy farms in March were paid an average of $25.90 per hundredweight of milk, up 50 cents, or almost 2 percent, from $25.40 in February. The year-over-year rise in prices was […]
Milk prices at the producer level kept going up in New York state in the latest month for which data is available.
New York dairy farms in March were paid an average of $25.90 per hundredweight of milk, up 50 cents, or almost 2 percent, from $25.40 in February. The year-over-year rise in prices was much steeper. Milk prices received were up $8, or nearly 45 percent, from the $17.90 average in March 2021.
The data comes from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on May 18.
New York dairy farms produced 1.305 billion pounds of milk in April, down 0.8 percent from 1.315 billion pounds in the year-prior month. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,105 pounds in April, up slightly from 2,100 in the same month last year. The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head in April, down 1 percent from 626,000 head in April 2021, NASS reported.
