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Wisconsin dairy farmers have recovered financially from the Great Recession. The National Ag Statistics Service said the state’s gross income for dairy producers was about five-and-a-quarter billion dollars last year – the first time that incomes matched what they were before the economic downturn began. Gross producer incomes fell from about five-billion dollars in 2007 to four-and-a-half billion in ’08, and then down to three-point-two-billion in ’09 before starting to go up. Milk production increased slightly in each of the five years, while the incomes varied widely. Last year, almost 26-billion pounds of Wisconsin milk was used for consumption, or for making cheese. Last year’s average farm price was 20-dollars-and-30-cents for every hundred pounds produced. On a monthly basis, the producer price fell to 11.30 in June of ’09, while hitting a high of 22.60 last July.

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