The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the average price paid to dairy farmers was $19.70 per hundred, down from $20.50 in January.
Audra Hubbell, a research analyst for the National Agricultural Statistics Service, says Wisconsin's January milk price was one dollar per hundred ahead of a year ago.
Hubbell said January milk production in Wisconsin totaled 2.38 billion pounds, up more than a 100,000,000 pounds from a year ago.
Wisconsin's annual 2012 milk production set a record, up 4% to 27.2 billion pounds, according to NASS.
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