Statistics Canada has released its dairy numbers for the month of August.
Total on farm sales reached 511 million dollars. That's up 21 million, or 4.2 per cent from August 2015.
Ontario dairy farm sales held nearly steady, increasing one million dollars from a year ago.
Canada's gross total milk production went up from 524 million litres last year to 546 million litres this year.
Again Ontario was up slightly, from 169 million litres in August of 2015 to 170 million this year.
StatsCan also notes sales of skim milk across the country rose by .1 per cent on the year.
