FEMA reported that approximately 1,400 of 1,800 dairy farms in the region affected in New York state were damaged by power outages and downed trees. The farms then faced a year of low milk production.

The New York Department of Agriculture & Markets estimated that the storm resulted in 7 million pounds of discarded milk. The losses were estimated at $1 million.

New York agriculture officials noted that overall milk production in a six-county area was estimated to have dropped by 50 percent (from 6 million to 3 million pounds per day). The overall milk production for New York state as a whole for January 1998 was down by 3 percent.

On poultry farms, birds died or stopped growing. Egg production was also reduced and some birds went into molt, where egg production would not resume until the molting process had concluded.