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February milk production up a little, depending on how you look at it

February milk production statistics show what a difference a day makes.  USDA says production in the major dairy producing states was 2.6% lower last month that it was a year ago, but production was nine-tenths of a percent higher than a year ago when adjusting for leap year.  The top twenty-four producing states made 17 billion pounds of milk, and nationwide, producers made 17.7 billion pounds.

Production per cow was down last month.  The twenty-four major producing states had per-cow production drop by 66 pounds, while nationwide production fell by 61 pounds.

California and Wisconsin remain number one and two for the most milk cows with 1.7 and 1.2 million head respectively.  Idaho has the third highest milk cow population with 665-thousand head.   Michigan continues to have the highest milk-per-cow average with 2,140 pounds, followed by Texas, Arizona, and Colorado.