June is Dairy Month

Black and white dairy cows graze in a green pasture with a red barn and farm buildings under a blue sky.
Dairy cows graze in a pasture on a farm, a common sight in the agricultural Finger Lakes region.

June is National Dairy Month. Jacob Maslyn with Ontario County Cooperative Extension says many people might not know how big a role dairy farms play in the state’s agricultural economy.

New York’s 36 hundred dairy farms produce 15 billion pounds of milk annually.

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