USDA recently released the December milk production numbers seeing a rise of 0.9% totaling 17.1 billion pounds. Production per cow averaged 1,966 pounds, up 23 pounds from same time last year. The number of cows totaled 8.72 million head, 21,000 less than December of 2017 and down 2,000 from November. You can read the full milk production report here.