Indiana May Milk Production

May milk yield up 12.6 percent from a year ago

Dairy herds in Indiana produced 402 million pounds of milk during May, up 12.6 percent from a year ago, according to Nathanial Warenski, State Statistician of USDA, NASS, Indiana Field Office. Production per cow in Indiana averaged 2,050 pounds for May, 20 pounds above May 2020. The dairy herd was estimated at 196,000 head for May, up 20,000 head from a year earlier. 

Milk production in the 24 major States during May totaled 18.9 billion pounds, up 4.9 percent from May 2020. April revised production, at 18.5 billion pounds, was up 3.7 percent from April 2020. The April revision represented an increase of 44 million pounds or 0.2 percent from last month’s preliminary production estimate. Production per cow in the 24 major States averaged 2,107 pounds for May, 63 pounds above May 2020. The number of milk cows on farms in the 24 major States was 8.99 million head, 152,000 head more than May 2020, and 5,000 head more than April 2021.