New York milk production edges up less than 1 percent in January

New York dairy farms produced 1.3 billion pounds of milk in January, up 0.7 percent from almost 1.29 billion pounds in the year-prior month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.

Production per cow in the state averaged 2,080 pounds in January, 0.7 percent higher than 2,065 pounds a year earlier.

The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 625,000 head in January, unchanged from January 2020, NASS reported.

When it comes to milk prices, New York dairy farmers in December were paid an average of $18.30 per hundredweight, down $1.70 from November and off $2.20 from December 2019. 

In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 865 million pounds of milk in January, down 0.1 percent from January 2020.