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Dairy Outlook for 1950
The Bureau of Agriculture Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has released its Dairy Outlook report for 1950. A review of the important points in this report will help dairymen plan their business for the coming year.
Prices for milk and dairy pro- ducts in 1950 may average somewhat less than 1949, domestic demand in 1950 may not be as strong as this year; over-all dairy exports are likely to be smaller. .Although prices for dairy products, have not declined as much at retail as at wholesale, expendi■i.tu£esvRereena»n>&T^hsyse» declined
year. Expenditures also^haVe de.clined for fluid .milk and cream, but by relatively smaller amounts. Milk cow numbers in the United States Vwere stabilized during the first half of 1949 after declining steadily for nearly 6 years.. The Central Plains states may further decline due to the relatively more favorable returns from cash grains and meat animals than from milk. On the two coasts cow numbers have increased, reflecting in part more stable returns for milk consumed in fluid form. This trend is expected to continue, thereby tending to increase the proportion of milk output coming from a^eas normally producing milk primarily for fluid consumption.
The record output per cow this year was due largely to very heavy grain feeding. On many
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