Dairy farmers in Wis., Minn. have moderate month
Dairy production in Wisconsin and Minnesota continues to outpace last year's harvest, but the rate of increase is slowing.
Dairy farmers in both states have been outperforming 2009 harvests by 2-3 percent. Last month, however, the improvement was 1-2 percent.
Wisconsin remains the nation's second-leading milk producer. The state produced 2.3 billion pounds of milk in July. That was up 2 percent from July of last year.
Minnesota dairy farmers harvested 794 million pounds, a 1 percent increase.
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Total production nationwide rose 3 percent for the 23 major milk-producing states. That translates to a total yield of 15.3 billion pounds.
California remains the nation's leader in milk production. Dairy farmers there produced 3.4 billion pounds of milk last month.
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Online: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
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