Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, last year remained the top producer in the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order.
Lancaster produced 2.1 billion pounds of milk in the order last year, 70% more than second-place Cayuga County, New York.
Lancaster also had by far the most farms contributing to the order — more than 1,300, the Northeast Order said in a recent newsletter.
Cayuga County, by contrast, had only 79 farms putting milk on the federal order, meaning the average farm in the county shipped 10 times as much milk as the average Lancaster County farm.
Last year’s other top producers were Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Genesee, Ontario and Wyoming counties in western New York; Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in New York’s North Country; and Addison and Franklin counties in Vermont.
The top 10 counties produced 10 billion pounds of milk, or 38% of the milk pooled on the Northeast Order last year.
The Northeast had the third largest amount of milk pooled among all federal orders through the first three months of this year.
The 6.8 billion pounds was behind only the Upper Midwest and California, though the Northeast’s 3% increase was comparatively small.
Source: lancasterfarming.com
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