Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wisconsin Dairy Statistics

Interesting facts about Wisconsin:
Number of Wisconsin dairy farms selling milk - 13,170 dairy farms
Number of Wisconsin dairy cows - 1,257,000 dairy cows
Average milk production per cow per year in Wisconsin - 20,079 lbs/2,335 gallons
Total Wisconsin milk production - 25, 239,000,000 lbs./2,935,000,000 gallons
Wisconsin milk production (percentage of the U.S. total) - 13.3%
Average number of cows per farm in Wisconsin - 95 dairy cows


THE BEST STATISTIC OF ALL:  FAMILIES OWN THE FARMS IN WISCONSIN
Family partnerships - 7.8%, Family corporations - 3.9%, Other - 1.5% and Individual and Families - 86.8%


References:USDA/NASS, Census of Agriculture, 2007, WMMB, 2010

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