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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Joseph Morse
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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                   JUNE MILK PRODUCTION INCREASED

New York dairy herds produced 1.06 billion pounds of milk during June according to 
Stephen Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York 
Field office.  Milk cows declined while production per cow was up from the previous year 
resulting in a 0.2 percent increase in milk production compared to June 2009.  The number 
of milk cows averaged 610,000 head, down 13,000 head from June of the previous year.  
Milk per cow averaged 1,740 pounds, up 40 pounds from the June 2009 rate.

Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $16.90 per hundredweight of 
milk sold during June, up 90 cents from May and $4.50 more than June a year ago.
 
Milk production in the 23 major States during June totaled 15.2 billion pounds, up 2.7 
percent from June 2009. May revised production at 15.8 billion pounds, was up 1.5 percent 
from May 2009. The May revision represented an increase of 40 million pounds or 0.3 
percent from last month's preliminary production estimate.       
  
Production per cow in the 23 major States averaged 1,816 pounds for June, 67 pounds 
above June 2009.  The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major States was 8.35 
million head, 87,000 head less than June 2009, but 10,000 head more than May 2010.


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