D24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1981
Numbers speak for themselves in dairy production
LANCASTER Up until 1980, if
you had examined the annual
statistics on the number of dairy
cows in the U.S., you might have
wondered about Bossie’s future
The “cow census" showed a
steady, long-term decline in
population, which was down more
than one million in the past decade
alone. But last year the trend
reversed and milk cow numbers
rose to 10.8 million head, up 1
percent from 1979.
Add to this the fact that each cow
produced an average of 387 pounds
more milk in 1980 than in 1979 and
you get 1980’s all-time record milk
production of 128.4 billion pounds.
This total was up almost 4 percent
from 1979 and topped the 1964
record production of 127 billion
pounds by 1 percent.
Of total milk produced, ap
proximately 51.3 billion pounds
were sold as fluid milk. Most of the
rest went to make the wide variety
of real dairy foods found in stores
and restaurants, including the
major products, cheese and butter.
In 1980, the dairy industry sold
more than 3.8 billion pounds of
cheese and 874 million pounds of
butter.
Once again the leading dairy
state was Wisconsin, producing
22.3 billion pounds of milk in 1980.
California was second with 13.6
billion pounds, followed by New
York, 11.0 billion; Minnesota, 9.5
billion; and Pennsylvania, 8.5
billion.
Pennsylvania ranks near the top
in many categories of manufac
tured dairy products. The Com
monwealth is:
Second in milk sherbet with 3
million gallons; third in low fat
cottage cheese with 15.3 million
pounds; second in total frozen
dairy products with 89.8 million
gallons; third in ice milk with 18.3
million gallons.
Also, second in ice cream with
71.3 million gallons; third in un
sweetened condensed skim milk
with 70.8 million pounds; sixth in
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creamed cottage cheese with 46
million pounds and fifth in Italian
cheese with 26.2 million pounds.
Figures on average output per
cow over the past several years
indicate that dairy farmers’
animal husbandry practices have
produced a consistent rise in cows’
milk-making efficiency. Con
tributing significantly to U.S.
agricultural productivity, average
milk produced per cow rose more
than 3 percent as compared to 1979,
to an average of 11,875 pounds per
cow Just since 1970, per-cow
LANCASTER Several
management reports ranging
from information on breeder
pullets and progress on controlling
baby pig scours to use of selective
herbicide applicators - are
available free from various
agricultural companies.
A management report from
Cobb, Incorporated, explains the
breeder pullet’s genetic
development and outlines per
formance trial data on the bird.
Also, the report discusses
characteristics of the Cobb male,
which with the unproved pullet
make up the breeder package for
1980’s. Trial data comparing
broiler mortality, weight gam,
feed conversion and condemnation
rates with those of competing birds
is featured.
The breeder pullet report is
available by writing to Cobb, In
corporated, P.O. Box 280, Concord,
Mass. 01742.
A new management report on
baby pig scours - its causes,
economic effects and ways to
control it - has been published by
TUCO, division of the Upjohn
Company.
The four-page report features
information by Dr. James H.
Bailey, South Dakota State
University Extension
Veterinarian, on the cause and
production has increased 2,124
pounds or 22 percent.
In keeping with the trend in U.S
agriculture in general, the total
number of operations with one or
more milk cows (other than cows
used to nurse calves) fell 4 percent
in 1980 to 335,270 from 349,970 in
1979.
With this and the much
discussed rise in the number of
large farms, one could expect that
1980’s increases in total and per
cow milk production came from
giant operations with hundreds of
Pullet, pig scours reports available
effects of bacterial enteritis in
swine, and recommendations from
James Van Buren, TUCO
researcher, on how to prevent and
control the condition.
For a copy, write: Scours in
Swine Management Report,
TUCO, Division of the Upjohn
Dela. Soybean Board elects members
DOVER, Dela. Soybean
producers in Sussex and New
Castle counties will be selecting
representatives to fill expiring
terms on the Delaware Soybean
Board between June 8 and June 15.
Secretary of Agriculture Donald
J. Lynch, explained each year one
third of the nine-member Board’s
terms expire.
Under the Development order
ratified by Delaware soybean
producers last summer, the
Board’s membership is made up of
four representatives from Sussex
County, three from Kent County
and two from New Castle County.
This year soybean producers will
be electing one representative
from New Castle County and two
from Sussex County.
Ballots to select these
representatives will be mailed on
June 5 according to Secretary
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cows, and that the small dairy
farm with a few peacefully grazing
cows was becoming part of
America’s past. A look at United
States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) figures about dairy
operations for 1980 shows that
neither expectation is accurate.
Farms with 1 to 29 head of milk
cows made up 60.7 percent of all
U.S. operations with milk cows,
while those with 100 or more head
were only 5.4 percent of such
farms. Those with 30 to 49 head
only made up 18.9 percent of the
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total, and operations with 50 to 99
milk cows represented 15 percent.
However, the smallest farms also
accounted for the smallest portion
of total U.S. cow numbers: 13.5
percent. The 30-to-49-cow group
accounted for 22.9 percent of the
cows; 50-to-99-cow operations, for
30.4 percent. Despite their small
representation in total number of
milk cow operations, the 100-and
over group of farms accounted for
33.2 percent or the largest per
centage of 1980 total milk cow
inventory.
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