Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:53:00 GMT
Export volume of butterfat products in July was the second highest it’s been in the past six years; this year’s butterfat exports already exceed last year’s but will not likely reach 2008’s all-time record. For more detail click here.
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:47:00 GMT
For a fifth straight month, cheese exports in July were the highest they’ve been in the last six years; cheddar volume is about 20% of the total. Total cheese exports so far this year are 50% higher than they were a year ago. It appears that total exports this year will set a record. For more detail click here.
Wed, 26 May 2010 16:51:00 GMT
The nation’s cheese supplies continued to pile up, reaching a 26-year high last month, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
U.S. cheese inventories totaled 1.012 billion pounds at the end of April, up 7.8 percent from the same period in 2009, the USDA said in its monthly Cold Storage report May 21. That’s the highest for any month since supplies topped 1.044 billion in Nov. 1984. For the full story click here.
Mon, 10 May 2010 12:47:00 GMT
Federal statistics show that Wisconsin is still the nation’s big cheese.
Wisconsin produced 2.65 billion pounds of cheese last year. That accounted for a nation-best 26 percent of the U.S. cheese output in 2009. For the complete story click here.
Cheese production values can be obtained from the following URL from within the Understanding Dairy Markets website: http://future.aae.wisc.edu/tab/production.html#9 .
Tue, 04 May 2010 13:35:00 GMT
Last weed the USDA made available the 2009 Annual Summary of Milk Production, Disposition and Income report. This report can be obtained by clicking here.
Tue, 04 May 2010 13:17:00 GMT
Last week, the USDA made available their 2009 Dairy Products Annual Summary. To obtain this report click here.
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:10:00 GMT
There were 211,700 dairy cows to the slaughterhouse in May, the smallest figure (on a daily average basis) since July 2008 according to today’s NASS report.
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:52:00 GMT
The May milk production report was released yesterday by the USDA. The data for Wisconsin shows a preliminary May production value of 2.179 bil. lbs. On a 30-day basis this value is 2.109 bil. lbs. which represents a 2.1% increase over the April production level. The May 09 production level is 1.9% higher than the May 08 level. For the US as a whole milk production was estimated to increase just 0.1%. California’s production decreased 1.9%.
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:05:00 GMT
The April Dairy Products Report was released today. Total cheese output was 846 mil. lbs, 3.2% above April 2008 and 2.8% below March 2009.&nsp; Butter prod. was 144 mil. lbs, 3.9 % below April 2008 and 2.1% below March 2009.
Fri, 22 May 2009 19:07:00 GMT
The April Cold Storage report was released today. end-of-April Total Cheese stocks was 914.1 mil. lbs., an increase of 20 mil. lbs from Mar. This compares to 855.9 milk. lbs. at the end of April 2008.
End of month butter stocks stood at 242.7 mil. lbs., a 30.3 mil. lb increase over the stock level at the end of March. This compares with an April 2008 stock level of 251.5 mil. lbs.
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