The rate of milk production continues to rise nationwide, even as it slows in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The U.S. produced 15.4 billion pounds of milk last month. That was a 1 percent increase from the same month last year.
That improvement was driven by increases of 8 percent in Texas and 5 percent in Idaho.
But Wisconsin and Minnesota continued their trend of recent months, producing less milk this year than in comparable periods in 2010.
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