Wisconsin Dairy Plants Still Producing More Cheeses Products Compared to a Year Ago
Saturday, December 10th, 2016 -- 6:55 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The USDA reports that Wisconsin's dairy plants are still producing more cheese products on a monthly basis than they did a year earlier.The agency's latest dairy product summary notes that Wisconsin produced 269.5 million pounds of cheese in October--which was up 0.9 percent from October 2015, and 2.9 percent more than this past September. This marks the 25th consecutive month that monthly production exceeded year-to-year levels.
Nationally, about 1.03 billion pounds of cheese was produced in the United States. That was 0.5 percent more than the same month last year, and 4.8 percent greater than the previous month's production totals. Dry Whey output in Wisconsin was recorded at 25.9 million pounds, which was up 4.2 percent from last year, and 5.8 percent more than last month.
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