Despite this summer's drought, Wisconsin and Minnesota continue to rally in milk production, creeping up on California's production numbers in August. Check it out:

Milk production continues to improve in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where dairy farmers had a stronger August this year than they did last year.

Wisconsin dairy farmers harvested 2.3 billion pounds of milk last month. That was 5 percent better than in August of last year.

And in Minnesota, production totaled 753 million pounds, a 3 percent improvement

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