Table 7. State and national standardized lactation averages for Red and Whites calving in 1999, with records used in national genetic evaluations.

	Records	Milk	Fat		Protein1
State	(no.)	(lb)	(%)	(lb)	(%)	(lb)
Arkansas	16	22,338	2.90	648	2.90	648
California	421	21,484	3.44	739	3.13	665
Colorado	4	24,540	3.29	807	2.88	706
Connecticut	8	23,773	3.43	815	2.83	673
Georgia	7	21,432	3.24	693	2.77	595
Idaho	36	27,862	3.55	989	3.03	843
Illinois	129	21,702	3.71	805	2.95	641
Indiana	44	21,842	3.58	783	3.01	659
Iowa	77	23,695	3.60	854	2.97	705
Kansas	2	20,194	3.57	721	2.87	580
Kentucky	46	20,524	3.77	773	3.09	634
Louisiana	33	22,069	3.56	786	3.08	680
Maine	2	19,146	3.85	737	2.94	563
Maryland	39	22,291	3.87	862	2.99	667
Massachusetts	5	17,356	3.92	680	3.15	547
Michigan	457	23,827	3.74	890	2.97	708
Minnesota	377	22,785	3.67	836	2.86	652
Mississippi	1	15,810	3.52	556	2.83	447
Missouri	10	20,940	3.51	736	2.97	623
Nebraska	3	23,195	3.50	811	2.75	638
New Hampshire	2	26,279	3.27	861	3.15	827
New Jersey	7	20,901	3.79	792	2.98	622
New York	431	21,098	3.72	785	2.96	624
North Carolina	9	21,343	4.03	861	3.08	657
North Dakota	3	23,782	3.71	882	3.10	738
Ohio	81	20,531	3.68	756	3.02	620
Oklahoma	3	19,989	3.17	633	2.64	528
Oregon	32	24,322	3.68	894	3.02	734
Pennsylvania	402	22,852	3.69	842	2.96	676
Puerto Rico	72	14,929	2.85	426	3.04	454
South Carolina	188	24,926	3.74	932	3.05	761
Tennessee	1	17,832	3.53	630	3.50	624
Texas	3	23,161	3.65	846	3.02	699
Vermont	27	20,306	3.67	745	2.97	602
Virginia	261	24,937	3.69	919	3.00	748
Washington	18	27,130	3.49	948	2.86	777
West Virginia	2	21,762	3.04	662	3.07	668
Wisconsin	1,038	23,209	3.64	844	2.93	680
United States	4,297	22,732	3.64	828	2.97	675
1Protein was reported with at least 99% of records for all states except California (96%)