Milk outlook; Farm Bureau elects officers

Milk outlook; Farm Bureau elects officers

Washington Ag Today November 22, 2010 Washington dairy farms produced 7.1 percent more milk in October of this year than October of 2009. The increase came from 14-thousand more cows than a year ago and higher output per cow.

Nationally, milk production last month was up 3.3 percent from last October and USDA Outlook Board Chairman Jerry Bange says production is expected to increase next year though by a lesser amount than thought just a month ago.

Bange; “For 2011 we expect production to increase 1.4%. We did drop that estimate two-tenths of a percent from last month‘s estimate. That is down about 400-million pounds. The reason we came off of that is we are seeing a slower rate of growth in cow numbers. As a matter of fact it looks like by the time we get to Q4 of 2011 we might actually see lower cow numbers. They are still increasing but increasing at a slower rate.”

USDA’s new all-milk price forecast for 2011 is $16.40 a hundredweight, about five cents lower than the previous forecast but still up a nickel from 2010.

At its annual meeting last week the Washington State Farm Bureau voted unanimously to re-elect Steve Appel, a wheat and barley grower from Whitman County, to lead them into 2011. Appel has served as the organization’s president since 1994. Aaron Golladay, a diversified farmer from Grant County, was elected to his first term as First Vice President for legislation and Mike LaPlant, a hay farmer from Grant County, was unanimously re-elected to his second term as Second Vice President for Policy Development.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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