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Monday, February 1, 2010

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                   JANUARY MILK PRICES INCREASED FROM DECEMBER 
              
 

Prices received by New York producers for milk sold during January were up from a month 
earlier, according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, 
New York Field Office. The price of corn also increased. The price of apples, wheat, and hay 
decreased. The price of potatoes was unchanged. Many previous month prices were revised 
due to more complete sales information. 
 
Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $17.00 per hundredweight of milk sold 
during January, up 30 cents from December and $2.70 more than January a year ago. 

Grain corn, at $3.93 per bushel, was up 15 cent from December but decreased 83 cents from 
last year. Wheat, at $5.14 per bushel, was down 14 cents from December and down $2.57 from 
January a year ago. Hay averaged $114.00 per ton, down $15 from December and $2 lower 
than prices received January 2009. Potatoes averaged 12.10 per hundredweight, unchanged 
from December but down $2.70 from last year at this time. Apples, at 20.7 cents per 
hundredweight, were down .8 cents from December and 6.6 cents from last year. 
 
The preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in January, at 137 
percent, based on 1990-92=100, increased 2 points (1.5 percent) from December. The Crop 
Index is unchanged but the Livestock Index increased 4 points (3.4 percent). Producers 
received higher prices for broilers, cattle, hogs, and apples and lower prices for lettuce, corn, 
broccoli, and soybeans. In addition to prices, the overall index is also affected by the seasonal 
change based on a 3-year average mix of commodities producers sell. Increased monthly 
marketings of corn, soybeans, wheat, and rice offset decreased marketings of milk, broilers, 
cotton, and grapes. The information in this release is available by free email subscription by 
subscribing to New York reports at www.nass.usda.gov/ny. 

 

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