Despite a decline in milk production throughout most of the year, there has been an unexpected resurgence lately creating a year-over-year increase of 0.4%.

There was some good news in USDA’s recent Milk Production report. It shows that despite a decline in production throughout most of the year, there has been an unexpected resurgence lately creating a year-over-year increase of 0.4%.

Phil Plourd of Ever.Ag attributes this to the effects of HPAI in California. He said that led to a significant decrease in production in the state but says that outside of California milk production grew at a healthy rate.

October milk production across the 24 major milk producing states reached a total of 18 billion lbs. Production per cow averaged 2,013 lbs. The report also showed an increase of the number of cows on farms totaling 8.92 million head – that’s an increase of 21,000 head from the previous year.

For in depth look at the numbers, check out this story.

China Widens Probe into EU Dairy Imports

China says it is expanding its scope of its anti-subsidy investigation into dairy imports from the European Union. It will now expand it into Denmark, France, Italy and the Netherlands.

China launched their investigation into imports of some cheese, milk and cream from the EU in August after the EU announced a tariff plan for Chinese made electric vehicles (EV.) Those EV tariffs of up to 45% took effect at the end of last month. The EU is China’s second largest source of dairy products behind New Zealand.