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NEWS RELEASE
United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service
South Dakota Field Office - Sioux Falls, SD

Media contact: South Dakota Office, 605/323-6500
Email:  nass-sd@nass.usda.gov


SOUTH DAKOTA MILK CASH RECEIPTS DOWN


SIOUX FALLS, April 27, 2006 -- Cash receipts from marketings 
of milk in South Dakota during 2005, at $218.2 million, were 
down 1 percent from the $220.4 million in 2004, according to 
the South Dakota office of USDA’s National Agricultural 
Statistics Service.  Lower milk prices more than offset 
higher production levels to result in reduced cash receipts.

South Dakota producers received an average of $15.30 per 
hundredweight of milk sold in 2005.  This is a 7 percent 
decrease from the $16.50 received in 2004.

Total milk production in South Dakota increased 7 percent in 
2005, to 1,437 million pounds.  This is up from the 1,347 
million pounds produced in 2004.  The rate per cow, at 17,741 
pounds, was up 5 percent from 2004.  The 2005 average number 
of cows on farms, at 81,000 head, was up 1,000 head from 2004.


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http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/dairy/pmp-bbm/milk0406.pdf