Statewide Iowa — Iowa is seeing a number of dairy producers leave the industry while many of those who remain are growing in size, according to a survey from the Iowa State University Extension. ISU Extension dairy specialist Jennifer Bentley says it’s been a shift over the past several years.
The surveys are done every five years and the results of the 2020 survey were just released. Bentley says the new survey shows producers are adapting to advances in automation.
She says the pandemic has been tough on dairy producers.
Bentley says the typical dairy herd in Iowa has less than 250 predominantly Holstein cows with a rolling herd average between 18- and 26-thousand pounds.
