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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Keith R. Miller
Friday, August 18, 2006
www.nass.usda.gov/ny
JULY MILK PRODUCTION UP SLIGHTLY
New York dairy herds produced 1.04 billion pounds of milk during July according to Stephen Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York office. A slight increase in production per cow resulted in the 0.3 percent increase in total milk production compared to July 2005. The number of milk cows averaged 647,000 head, unchanged from July of the previous year. Milk per cow averaged 1,605 pounds, up 5 pounds from the July 2005 rate.
Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $12.30 per hundredweight of milk sold during July, unchanged from June but $3.10 below July a year ago.
Milk production in the 23 major States during July totaled 13.9 billion pounds, up 1.5 percent from July 2005. June revised production, at 14.0 billion pounds, was up 1.9 percent from June 2005. The June revision represented an increase of 6 million pounds from last month’s preliminary production estimate.
Production per cow in the 23 major States averaged 1,686 pounds for July, 3 pounds above July 2005. The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major States was 8.26 million head, 107,000 head more than July 2005, but 11,000 head less than June 2006.
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8-18-06
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