Lee Mielke: Milk output down 0.6%

Milk flow on U.S. farms is stubbornly remaining below a year ago, especially in the West and Southwest.

Preliminary data for November show output was down for the fifth month in a row, estimated at 18.1 billion pounds, down 0.6% from November 2022. The top 24-state total, at 17.3 billion, was down 0.5%.

The October 50-state total was revised down 35 million pounds from last month’s estimate, which put output down 0.7% from 2022 instead of the 0.1% originally reported.

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