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U.S. Milk Production Moving North


A dairy expert says milk production has shifted more to the north since 2015.  Mark Stephenson is the University of Wisconsin Center For Dairy Profitability Director. 

He says with few exceptions, there’s a lot less milk produced in the south than just a few years ago.  “In these northern-tier states, we only have three states… Montana, Massachusetts and Rhode Island… that have actually declined in milk production and those are relatively insignificant milk-producing states, anyway.  Everybody else has increased milk production.  You look south of that line, there are only three states… Arizona, Texas, and Georgia… that have increased milk production.  Everybody else has declined.”

Stephenson says the increased production in the northern states is significant.  “Those that have gained have gained in the last three years about 25 million pounds of milk a day.  That’s about roughly four good-sized (processing) plants.”

While the North is making much more milk, Stephenson told producers, processors, educators, and government leaders at a University of Wisconsin Dairy Summit Monday the southern states have lost about seven million pounds of production per day.

 

Source: Brownfield


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