New York milk production rises more than 3 percent in June

New York dairy farms produced nearly 1.32 billion pounds of milk in June, up 3.1 percent from just under 1.28 billion pounds in the year-ago month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.

Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,090 pounds in June, up almost 2.5 percent from 2,040 pounds a year before.

The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 630,000 head in June, up less than 1 percent from 626,000 head in June 2020, NASS reported.

Milk prices rose in the latest report. New York dairy farmers in May were paid an average of $19 per hundredweight, up 70 cents from April, and $5.70 higher than in May 2020.

In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 846 million pounds of milk in June, down 1.2 percent from a year earlier.