UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) Wisconsin continues to make a larger share of the nation’s milk supply, but the state remains well behind first-place California. According to the U-S-D-A, Wisconsin made 2.3-billion pounds of milk last month. That’s up 3.1-percent from the same month a year ago.
National milk production rose 0.4-percent, the smallest year-to-year increase of 2015.
The U-S pumped out 16-and-a-half billion pounds in September.
Top-producing California saw its milk output go down 3.6-percent from last year. The Golden State’s dairy herd declined by 1,000, while production-per-cow fell 65 pounds. Wisconsin had increases in all those categories. It added 8,000 animals, with a 45-pound increase per cow.
For the third quarter of the year, Wisconsin’s milk production rose 4.5-percent while the nation had an increase of less than one-percent.