ALBANY, N.Y. — New York dairy farms produced 1.24 billion pounds of milk in March, up 5.5 percent from the year-earlier period, the USDA’s New York field office recently reported.

Production per cow averaged 2,000 pounds in March, up 95 pounds from March 2015.

The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 620,000 head this March, up 3,000 head from a year ago, but unchanged from last month, the field office reported.

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New York daily farmers received $16.70 per hundredweight of milk in February, down 30 cents from January and off $1.20 from February 2015, according to the field office.

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