INDIANA – Today is National Milk Day and we’re serving up a tall glass of Census Bureau economic data.
The fluid milk manufacturing industry had sales of $41.3 billion in 2021 and $39.8 billion in 2020.
November Milk Production was up 1.4 percent.
- Milk production in the 24 major States during November totaled 17.5 billion pounds, up 1.4 percent from November 2021. October revised production, at 18.0 billion pounds, was up 1.3 percent from October 2021. The October revision represented a decrease of 18 million pounds or 0.1 percent from last month’s preliminary production estimate.
- Production per cow in the 24 major States averaged 1,956 pounds for November, 17 pounds above November 2021.
- The number of milk cows on farms in the 24 major States was 8.94 million head, 48,000 head more than November 2021, and 1,000 head more than October 2022.”
