U.S. dairy cows continue to move inland

Updated 2 days ago The latest US Department of Agriculture (USDA) milk production report released recently did not bring much change, with December milk production up just 0.8% year-on-year, totaling 8.6 billion kilos of milk. In the year 2022, milk production grew by 0.2% compared to 2021. Meanwhile, the number of cows in the US has seen growth, with an additional 38,000 head compared to December 2021. That's still 9,000 head less compared to November 2022. Revised USDA production for November documented an increase of 1.1% higher than a year earlier, at 7.9 billion pounds. This November revision represented a drop of 22.2 million kg, or 0.3% from last month's preliminary production estimate. A summary of the December report: As revealed in the report, Texas led year-over-year growth with an increase of 25,000 head, followed by South Dakota with an additional 16,000 cows, Iowa with an additional 14,000 head and New York with an increase of 10,000 cows. The states that saw the ...