the university of georgia center for agribusiness and economic development college agricultural environmental sciences importance dairy industry prepared by archie flanders tommie shepherd john mckissick cr 06 05 july 2006 table contents introduction 1 impacts production 2 fluid milk manufacturing 3 losses due to declining 4 summary 5 in is concentrated specific areas state regions are characterized geography soil types commodities produced concentrations cows can be classified as northeast central southwest southeast southeastern region has a group counties upper another lower although value not large percentage total farm output sales important selected have had trends recent years chart indicates that annual decreased 6 during 1996 2005 this period number 16 shows
