A dairy economist says he expects milk production to stay strong in the Midwest but not in the drought-impacted west. Mark Stephenson is the director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability. He says, “Western states haven’t shown much in the way of reducing that dairy herd until, you know, just very recently. We’ve seen some more dairy cow slaughter coming out of western and southwestern states, but I think that this is only the beginning of that time period.
