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Butter and specialty cheese production up
Jan 4, 2018, 18:15 PM
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The USDA says butter and specialty cheese production was up, but many other dairy products were down as of November. The National Ag Statistics Service report says total cheese output was 1.05 billion pounds, which was up from November 2016 but down from this past October.
Butter production was 146 million pounds, 1.8 percent above November 2016 and 1.6 percent above October 2017.
Nonfat dry milk production was up almost 10% at 140 million pounds, and there were also production gains in dry whey, whey protein concentrate, and lactose.
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