New Dairy Farm Business Summary reports available

New York Organic Dairy Cost of Production: Benchmarks and Financial Performance

With 509 certified organic dairy farms producing 409 million pounds of milk in 2021, New York has more organic dairies than any other state and ranks third in the nation for organic milk production (NASS, 2022). Yet, information about the financial performance of organic dairies in New York is difficult to find, with the last data being published in 2011.

A newly released Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program (DFBS) extension bulletin, organic dairy cost of production report, aggregates DFBS data from 15 organic dairy collaborators to provide production and financial benchmarks for 2023.

The average and a range of performance is report for the average of all farms along with the averages of the high profit and low profit farms.