The USDA says domestic cheese production during October 2017 was 1.066 billion pounds, 1.7% more than in October 2016. Cheese production has topped more than a billion pounds every month this year, except for February. U.S. milk production continues to run at high levels, largely because of record or near record pound per cow averages, and while domestic demand is good, export demand has been slowed down by global competition for key markets, pushing stocks to record or near record levels several times this year.
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