John Oncken
As pretty much always happens, when the price of milk farmers receive goes up, they produce more milk. And it’s happening again. For the fifth time in 2020, Wisconsin dairy cows produced more milk during December then they did compared to the same month a year ago.
The USDA -NASS reports that Wisconsin cows produced 2.60 billion pounds during the month – up 2.6 % from last December.
Nationally, 18.1 billion pounds of milk was produced in the 24 major dairy states in December – a 3.2% increase from 2019. Eighteen of the top 24 states had higher year-to-year production last month.
Still No. 1
California continues to have the highest total milk production with about 3.51 billion pounds in December. Note that California cows continued to keep that state far ahead of Wisconsin in terms of milk production which will surprise many people who see the often-used “America’s Dairyland’” motto as the defining words. Wrong. It was in 1993 that California too