Show Herd Numbers But Milk Supply Grows In the past two milk production on United States farms has increased by 20 billion or one-fifth while the number of milking herds has In some of the Individual dairy changes have been even more In New for one-half more milk is marketed by 15 per cent fewer farmers than In Milk is produced on about Vh million of the six million farms In the United On about two million of the milk is produced solely for home Most of these farms have only one or two but their milk provides an important part of the food of some nine million farm On the other million farms that have milk some or farm-churned butter is These sales range from a few pounds of farm-churned butter per year up to thousands of pounds of milk per |