Wisconsin milk production right at national average

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Wisconsin’s dairy cows worked at about the same pace as their national counterparts in March.

Milk production rose four-point-two-percent from a year ago in both Wisconsin and the nation as a whole. California, the nation’s top milk producer, had a larger increase of 6.2 percent. The Golden State made 3.8 billion pounds of milk last month, while the Badger State made just over two-and-a-third billion pounds. Wisconsin added three-thousand cows to its herd, while California added 25,000. Production per cow rose by about 70-pounds in Wisconsin to 1,845. But the average California cow pumped out 95 more pounds, or about 2,100.

Milk production totaled about 17.7 billion pounds nationally, and about 16-and-a-half billion in the 23 major dairy states.

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