Table 6: Cow Numbers, Licensed DairyHerds & Herd Size, byState

Table 7: Milk Production byState

Sources: USDA/NASS: Milk Production Disposition and Income ; Bureau of Census. 1/ Alaska and Hawaii combined into "Other States" beginning in 2019.

U.S.MilkProduction, 1980

U.S.MilkProduction,2021

Table 9: Farm Level Milk Prices ByState

Table 10: Selected Farm Level Annual Average Milk Prices

(Dollars Per Hundredweight)

Source: USDA/AMS; USDA/NASS: Milk Production, Disposition, and Income

Note: Class III and Class IV price at 3.5% milkfat; all others at test.

NASS discontinued reporting manufacturiing grade and fluid grade milk prices in 2011.

Table 11: Monthly Seasonalityof U.S. All-Milk Price

Table 12: Annual Wholesale Prices of Dairy Products

USDA / AMS: Dairy Market Statistics 1/ Grade A butter price is reported before 1998. Grade A butter trading ended July 1, 1998.

CME Grade A beginning 2004. 3/ Central (low/medium) June 1998 - 2001; Central/East (low/medium) 2002 - 2017; 2/ Cheese prices: National Cheese Exchange through April 1997, then CME.

Source: USDA / AMS: Dairy Market Statistics

Average, Cents per Pound)