National Ag News

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.

Continue reading July milk production mostly flat at Brownfield Ag News.