The Texas Dairy Industry has grown tremendously over the last several years, but with that growth has also come major changes. Michael Tomaszewski is a visiting professor and professor emeritus of dairy science in Texas A&M’s Department of Animal Science.
“We had twenty eight hundred and ninety producers in 1975 producing about three billion pounds of milk in Texas. Central and East Texas were where all of our production was located. So we go to 2000. We’ve got eleven hundred producers, and we’re producing about five billion pounds of milk.”
Tomaszewski says that Texas dairy producer numbers today are fifteen per cent of what they were forty years ago.
“Texas now has four hundred and thirty six producers, producing over ten billion pounds of milk. So in the span of forty years, basically we’ve gone from three billion pounds of milk in Texas with twenty eight hundred producers, to four hundred and forty producers in Texas, producing over ten billion pounds of milk.”
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