| Missouri Dairy Business Update |  |
| Volume 3, Number 3 | |
March 2003 | |
| Missouri Dairy Business Update | |
| Volume 3, Number 3 | |
March 2003 | |
Dairy Trends Missouri & Surrounding States
Within Missouri's neighboring states, only Kansas shows a growing dairy industry, with Iowa flat and the rest declining in cow numbers.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/so/view.asp?f=livestock/ldp-mbb/
Those trends emerge from the latest preliminary US annual average dairy production numbers that were updated recently to include the year just passed, 2002. The graphs below reflect the latest cows numbers and milk production per cow estimates in Missouri and surrounding states.
Kansas recently pushed into the top 20 states in milk production, based upon increasing cow numbers and rapid increases in milk production per cow. That industry growth is primarily due to large dairy farms in western Kansas.
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||
| MO | 177,000 | 170,000 | 159,000 | 154,000 | 145,000 | 137,000 | |
| KS | 81,000 | 82,000 | 86,000 | 91,000 | 93,000 | 103,000 | |
| IA | 230,000 | 222,000 | 217,000 | 215,000 | 210,000 | 209,000 | |
| AR | 53,000 | 45,000 | 42,000 | 39,000 | 35,000 | 32,000 | |
| IL | 133,000 | 128,000 | 123,000 | 120,000 | 116,000 | 115,000 | |
| KY | 148,000 | 140,000 | 133,000 | 132,000 | 128,000 | 122,000 | |
| TN | 113,000 | 105,000 | 97,000 | 95,000 | 92,000 | 88,000 |
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||
| US | 16,872 | 17,189 | 17,772 | 18,201 | 18,159 | 18,571 | |
| MO | 13,345 | 13,924 | 14,069 | 14,662 | 13,441 | 14,024 | |
| KS | 15,864 | 16,037 | 16,337 | 16,923 | 17,312 | 19,515 | |
| IA | 16,057 | 17,167 | 17,521 | 18,298 | 18,024 | 18,201 | |
| AR | 11,981 | 12,000 | 12,381 | 12,436 | 12,343 | 12,281 | |
| IL | 16,564 | 16,570 | 16,496 | 17,450 | 17,414 | 17,835 | |
| KY | 12,264 | 12,214 | 12,414 | 12,841 | 12,969 | 13,230 | |
| TN | 14,239 | 14,295 | 14,608 | 14,789 | 14,511 | 14,943 |
