Wisconsin Dairy Plants Continue To Produce More Cheese
Sunday, February 4th, 2018 -- 8:10 AM
The USDA reports that Wisconsin's dairy plants are still producing more cheese products on a monthly basis than they did a year earlier.Wisconsin AgConnection reports that the agency's latest dairy product summary notes that Wisconsin produced 288.6 million pounds of cheese in December--which was up 2.6 percent from December 2016, and 3.9 percent more than this past November. Nationally, about 1.09 billion pounds of cheese was produced in the United States. That was 2.6 percent more than the same month last year, and 2.4 percent over the previous month's production totals.
Dry Whey output in Wisconsin was recorded at 28.1 million pounds, which was up 2.5 percent from last year, and 2.7 percent more compared to last month.
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