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New York milk producer prices up nearly 43 percent versus a year ago

Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month for which data is available amid continued inflationary pressures. New York dairy farms in May were paid an average of $27.10 per hundredweight of milk, unchanged from April but up almost 43 percent from the $19 average in May 2021. […]

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Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month for which data is available amid continued inflationary pressures.

New York dairy farms in May were paid an average of $27.10 per hundredweight of milk, unchanged from April but up almost 43 percent from the $19 average in May 2021.

The data is from the monthly milk-production report that the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued on July 21.

New York dairy farms produced 1.311 billion pounds of milk in June, down 0.2 percent from 1.314 billion pounds in the year-ago month. Milk production per cow in the Empire State averaged 2,105 pounds in the sixth month of this year, up nearly 1 percent from 2,085 pounds in June 2021. The number of milk cows on farms in New York totaled 623,000 head this June, down 1.1 percent from 630,000 head in the year-prior period, NASS reported.

Jornal Staff