EAST LANSING, Mich. — Dairy herds in Ohio produced 480 million pounds of milk during December, up 5.3 percent from a year ago, according to Cheryl Turner, State Statistician of the USDA, NASS, Ohio Field Office. Production per cow in Ohio averaged 1,860 pounds for December, 50 pounds above December 2019. The dairy herd was estimated at 258,000 head for December, up 6,000 head from a year earlier.
Milk production in the 24 major States during December totaled 18.1 billion pounds, up 3.2 percent from December 2019. November revised production, at 17.3 billion pounds, was up 3.5 percent from November 2019. The November revision represented an increase of 56 million pounds or 0.3 percent from last month’s preliminary production estimate.
Production per cow in the 24 major States averaged 2,027 pounds for December, 40 pounds above December 2019. The number of milk cows on farms in the 24 major States was 8.92 million head, 107,000 head more than December 2019, and 12,000 head more than November 2020.
— USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
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