Clark County Continues to Hold Highest Number of Dairy Herds in the State
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 -- 9:48 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The state's agriculture department has announced its latest dairy herd count numbers, which indicates there were 9,878 herds milking during the first week of July.That's a drop of 376 since the same month a year ago--and the third consecutive month that herd numbers remained under the 10,000 mark. Clark County continues to hold the highest number of herds in the state with 866. Forest County ranks last in the state with just one herd, with Milwaukee County only registering two.
But the state's remaining dairy operations are still milking over 1.27 million head. DATCP records show that 87 percent of state dairy operations are Grade A certified, with 13 percent licensed as Grade B. Wisconsin has been keeping track of dairy farm numbers since 1950. At that time, the state had 143,000 dairy operations and accounted for about four percent of the nation's total dairy farms.
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