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Is Wisconsin the Dairy State?

Trivia from a couple USDA reports released Thursday and Friday

September 19, 2014 at 10:25PM

Not if we're counting cows and milk production.

The latest USDA report on milk indicates that California produced about 3.5 million pounds of milk in August, compared to second-place Wisconsin's 2.3 million pounds.

The next two ranking states are California and Florida.

Minnesota ranks eighth on the list at 764,000 pounds, just behind Michigan.

Is Idaho still famous for its Potatoes?

Yes, by a long shot.

Another USDA report this week said that Idaho's fall potato production was 131 million hundredweight in 2013, well ahead of second place Washington's 96 million hundredweight.

Minnesota ranked sixth at 17.3 million hundredweight, with 45,000 acres of potatoes harvested.

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The report estimated that the total value of Minnesota's potato crop in 2013 was nearly $165 million.

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