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COW NUMBERS ON THE RISE
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 -- 12:02 pm
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
Wisconsin is home to more dairy cows than all but one state in the country.
According to new numbers released by DATCP, the state's official dairy cow inventory for 2007 increased 5,000 head to 1.25 million head on January 1. After declining for many years, the state's milk cow inventory has risen each of the last three years. Wisconsin ranked second in number of milk cows. Only California had more.
Overall, livestock producers in Wisconsin had 3.4 million head of cattle and calves on their farms as of January 1--no change from the same time last year. Wisconsin ranked ninth in the nation for inventory of cattle and calves.
While the number of dairy cows is up, the number of dairy herds is down 500 from 2006.
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