Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts says the outlook for the state’s dairy producers remains strong despite marketing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to reporters at a dairy event this week, Ricketts says a recent University of Nebraska-Lincoln study proves the industry’s resiliency. “Relative to the rest of the country, our dairy producers are getting more efficient and increasing productivity faster than the national average, which is good,” he says. “We saw during the pandemic milk production was up 3.6 percent and as I mentioned since 2014 we’ve grown the size of the dairy heard by about 9 percent.
