Wisconsin Dairy Plants Still Producing More Cheese on a Monthly Basis
Friday, May 5th, 2017 -- 9:06 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 288.3 million pounds of cheese in March--which was up 5.6 percent from March 2016, and 13.5 percent more than this past February (which had less days on the calendar). The state has now produced more cheese products on a year-to-year basis for 29 of the last 30 months.
Nationally, about 1.06 billion pounds of cheese was produced in the United States. That was 3.3 percent more than the same month last year, and 12.7 percent greater than the previous month's production totals. Dry Whey output in Wisconsin was recorded at 27.2 million pounds, which was down 1.2 percent from last year, but up 5.6 percent compared to last month.
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