UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) Wisconsin milk production is off to a great start in 2015.
The U-S-D-A said the state’s output rose by 3.4-percent in January, compared to the previous year. That’s a larger increase than the national jump of 2.1-percent.
The Badger State also had a huge gain over top-milk-producer California, which saw its milk production drop by two-point-six percent. Wisconsin cows made almost 2.4-billion pounds in January, second to California’s 3.5-billion.
Nationally, just over 17-and-a-half billion pounds of milk were produced last month.
Wisconsin added 5,000 cows in January, for a statewide total of almost 1.3-million. The average cow in the Badger State made 55 more pounds of milk than a year ago, for a total of 1,880 per head. That’s a little less than the national average of 1,895 pounds per cow.
The U-S-D-A also announced final production numbers for 2014. Wisconsin had an increase of eight-tenths of one-percent, a third of the national increase.
