More cows; more milk; Stockland report

Washington Ag Today February 22, 2011 Washington dairy farms produced 2.3 percent more milk in January this year than in January of 2010. Milk output per cow was down from a year ago but dairy cow numbers in the state totaled 252-thousand head, six thousand head more than January a year ago.

USDA Outlook Board chairman Jerry Bange says nationally there are 82-thousand more dairy cows than last year at this time.

Bange: “There are more dairy cows out there than perhaps we had thought and we also got some evidence in terms of what the intentions are of dairy farmers and clearly they are increasing the retention of heifers to add to the herd.”

USDA’s Bange says producers are responding to higher dairy product prices. For the 2011 year Bange expects U.S. milk production to increase about two percent with the all-milk price increasing 11 percent.

Now the report from Stockland Livestock.

This is Jack McQuinness with Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. Nine hundred cattle on our market. Very strong sale. Fully steady on all weights and classes of feeder cattle. Some of these seven weight cattle into the mid-30s, five and six-weight cattle 40s and 50s and the lightest cattle even higher than that. Top of the bred cows topping out at 1560. Real nice set of black cows. Bred heifers at 1450 to 1500 at any weight. Good demand and a house full of buyers. We sell cattle every week here at Stockland. Always features our stockers and feeders at one o’clock. Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. Thanks for listening.

Thanks Jack.

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

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