Posted: 11.21.2011

Apparently high feed costs are not causing our Wisconsin dairy farmers to skimp on what they're feeding their milk cows.  State officials confirm that Wisconsin's October milk production was up 1.7 percent compared to a year ago.

The state had the same number of milk cows working at it compared to 2010 - but each cow in the state was producing on average, 30 pounds of milk more then she did a year ago.  That's about 2.5 gallons of milk more per cow then October last year.

Overall the 23 major dairy producing states had a collective 2.5 percent increase in October milk.  Noteable increases were seen in Texas - with a 9.3 percent up-tick; Florida up 7.9 percent and Arizona up 7.2 percent.

On the soft side of dairy, Missouri and Pennsylvania saw October milk production decline.

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