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Dairy profitability slipped in October

Dairy profitability fell for the third month in a row, the monthly Index of Farm Prices puts the October all milk price at $19.90 while the cost of feed to produce 100 pounds of milk was $11.12 putting income-over-feed-cost at $8.78 per hundredweight. That is down 85 cents from September and 31 cents below the average income over feed cost for the past ten years.

The highest all milk price was $25.50 in Florida while the lowest was $18.00 in California.

The average milk cow price at the end of October was $1,480 per head unchanged from the end of July. Florida, Michigan and Vermont averaged $1,600 while Missouri averaged $1,270 per head. Wisconsin averaged $1,560 and California averaged $1,400.

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