Clark County Continues to Hold Highest Dairy Herds
Thursday, January 4th, 2018 -- 10:08 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The state's agriculture department has announced its latest dairy herd count numbers, which indicates there were 8,801 herds milking in Wisconsin during the first week of January.That's a drop of 503 since the same month a year ago. Clark County continues to hold the highest number of herds in the state with 823, followed by Marathon County with 532. Forest, Florence and Milwaukee Counties each registered just one herd as of the first of the year. Despite having less herds, the state's remaining dairy operations are still milking over 1.28 million head and producing a record amount of milk.
DATCP records show that 88 percent of state dairy operations are Grade A certified, with 12 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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