Every week U.S. dairy producers send about 10,000 fewer milk cows to beef packers than they once did. That’s slowly accumulating more cows in the barn. Even so, dairy-cow head counts are not as large as previously thought. After its quarterly survey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture trimmed its estimates of January and February milk-cow inventories. The agency pegged the herd at 9.404 million head in March, an increase of 57,000 head from a year ago and 8,000 head greater than USDA’s revised February inventory. But March’s herd was still 1,000 head smaller than USDA’s initial February number.
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Sarina Sharp
Sarina Sharp is with the Milk Producers Council. Visit www.milkproducerscouncil.org for more information.
