National Ag News

U.S. cheese production during December 2016 was up 1.3% on the year at 1.050 billion pounds, topping a billion pounds for the third month in a row.

Export demand has been fairly slow and stocks in cold storage were at or near record levels several times during 2016, but there’s plenty of milk available for production and domestic demand has been relatively consistent.

Italian type cheese production was down 1.1% at 460.585 million pounds, while American type cheese was 3.9% at 415.728 million pounds.

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