ALBANY, N.Y. — New York dairy farms produced 1.25 billion pounds of milk in June, up 4.2 percent from the year-ago period, the USDA’s New York field office reported.
Production per cow averaged 2,015 pounds in June, up 75 pounds from the prior year.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head last month, up 2,000 head from June 2015, but unchanged from May 2016, the field office reported.
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New York dairy farmers received $15.80 per hundredweight of milk in May, down 30 cents from April and off $1.80 from May 2015.
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