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September milk production flat nationwide

Milk production during September was up slightly on the year again but down on the month.

USDA says production in the U.S. was incrementally higher than last year at 17.6 billion pounds with production per cow up 34 pounds. 

The herd size was down 53,000 milking cows from last September and down 2,000 from the prior month.

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

Milk production in the third quarter of 2019 was up 0.5 percent from last year during the same period with a herd size of 9.3 million cows.  The herd size is down 10,000 from the previous quarter and 66,000 from the same quarter in 2018.