Favourable growing conditions over spring helped drive New Zealand milk production to a record high of 271,080,000 kg of milksolids in the peak month of October, according to DCANZ data.
The previous record was 270,839,000 kg in October 2014, the data shows.
October year-on-year milk production was up 6.5 per cent on a milksolids basis while season to-date NZ milk production rose by 6 per cent, DCANZ said.
ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny said the season was shaping up to be strongest on record, over and above the previous record set in the 2014/15 season, and following on from three successive seasons of declining production.
"Given the momentum and given the milk that is already in the tank, it's looking increasingly likely that we will set a new record," he said.