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July milk production mostly flat

Milk production during July was up slightly on the month and year.

USDA says production in the U.S. was incrementally higher than last year at 18.3 billion pounds with production per cow up 17 pounds.  For the second quarter of the year, production was down one-tenth of one percent.

The herd size was down 82,000 milking cows from last July and down 9,000 from the prior month.

USDA’s Acting World Ag Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski has lowered his forecast for milk production for the remainder of this year and into next, which is still calling for production to increase 3.4 percent. “Based on both lower cow numbers and a little bit of a decline in the growth in milk per cow, so a little bit tighter supplies that what might have been expected.”

Michigan continues to have the most productive cows in the nation. Virginia and Illinois again had the largest decrease in milk production during July; Colorado and Texas had the largest increases. 

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