Dairy Situation and Outlook, November 19, 2007 - Bob Cropp, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A continued building of the dairy herd and good milk per cow keeps milk production well above year ago levels. For the 23 reporting states, October milk cow numbers were 1.2% higher than a year ago and milk per cow was 2.8% higher resulting in 4.1% more milk production. Cow numbers have been higher than the month before each month beginning with May. Cow expansion is very evident in the West and Southwest with cow numbers up 5.1% in Arizona, 5.0% in Idaho, 2.7% in California and 2.4% in Texas. The exception is New Mexico where cow numbers were 6.7% lower. But, cow numbers are also up in the Midwest with Wisconsin up 0.4%, Minnesota 2.9% and Iowa 3.4%. Cow numbers are down in the South, Southeast and Northeast...

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Dairy Situation and Outlook, November 2007