Posted: 12.01.2010

The Wisconsin Ag Statistical Service announced on Wednesday that average price Wisconsin dairy farmers receive for the milk they produced in November will go down about 11 cents a gallon or $1.30 per hundredweight. 

Wisconsin farmers should receive, on average, $1.50 per gallon at the farm gate for the milk they produce - that's about $17.50 a hundredweight - and the first sign of a seasonal decline normally seen in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin dairy farmers aren't alone in this wicked downturn - California and Minnesota dairy farmers are facing the same sharp drop.  Michigan and Texas were about the only dairy producing states that expected a price increase for November.

Nationwide - the "U.S." milk price for November is $17.90 per cwt ($1.54 per gallon) which is 60 cents lower than last month, but 40 cents more than Wisconsin’s price.

For dairy farmers that were hoping for a little holiday cheer - I'm afraid the Wisconsin Ag Statistical Service just dropped a lump of coal in your stocking. 

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