State Milk Output Again Grows Slower Than Nationally

Wisconsin’s milk production keeps growing slower than the nation’s other dairy states. The U-S-D-A says the Badger State made almost two-point-five billion pounds of milk in September, an increase of eight-tenths-of-one-percent from the same month last year. The 23 major states had a one-point-two-percent increase in its milk output, and Wisconsin has lagged behind the national growth for most of this year. The state’s dairy herd was steady last year at almost one-point-three million head, with each cow making 15 more pounds since the previous September at 19-hundred-25. Wisconsin remains the nation’s second largest milk producer, well behind California and well ahead of third place New York.