THE LAND — DECEMBER 24/DECEMBER 31, 2021
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Contacts reporting an uptick in replacement heifer prices This column was written for the marketing week ending Dec. 24. First, I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas and hope you can rejoice in “the reason for the season.” I believe most of us have much to be News and information for Minnesota and Northern Iowa dairy producers grateful for. November milk production appeared Output per cow averaged 1,922 pounds, per cow; but cow numbers were up 2,000 head. MIELKE MARKET to be below a year ago, according to the up 3 pounds or 0.2 percent from a year ago Oregon was up 0.5 percent on a 10-pound gain per WEEKLY U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest California was up 32 million pounds or 1 cow. Cow numbers were unchanged. Pennsylvania Milk Production report (but then, so did By Lee Mielke was down 3.5 percent on 10,000 fewer cows and 25 percent from a year ago, on a 20-pound October’s). pounds less per cow. South Dakota was up 16.7 gain per cow offsetting 1,000 fewer cows November output slipped to 18 billion pounds, milked. Revisions resulted in a 2 percent increase in percent, thanks to 22,000 more cows and a according to preliminary data, down just 0.4 percent 15-pound gain per cow. Texas was up 2.8 percent October from 2020 instead of a 1.3 percent decline from November 2020. Output in the top 24 major on 17,000 more cows; but output per cow was as originally reported. Wisconsin cows put 55 milproducing states totaled 17.3 billion pounds, down unchanged. lion more pounds in the tank in November than a 0.1 percent. year ago, up 2.2 percent, thanks to 18,000 more Vermont was down 1.4 percent on a 25-pound Revisions however, added 110 million pounds to cows and a 15 pound per cow increase. drop per cow. Cow numbers were unchanged. the original October estimate, now put at 18.6 milWashington State output was down 6.7 percent on a Michigan was off 0.8 percent on a 10-pound drop lion, up 0.1 percent instead of the originally reportloss of 17,000 cows and 15 pounds less per cow than per cow and 2,000 fewer cows. Minnesota was up ed drop of 0.5 percent. 1.9 percent on 6,000 more cows and a 10-pound gain a year ago. November cow numbers totaled 9.39 million head, per cow. New Mexico again had the biggest drop, n down 10,000 from October. It is the sixth consecudown 13.2 percent, after falling 12.2 percent in The Dec. 17 Dairy and Food Market Analyst says tive month they were down from the previous October. Cow numbers were down 39,000 head and reports suggest the U.S. dairy herd is no longer month, and 47,000 head below a year ago. The output per cow was down 35 pounds. declining. “Between June and October 2021, cow October count was lowered 5,000 head. New York was off 0.2 percent on a 10-pound drop See MIELKE, pg. 14
