Cheese production up 6.5 percent from last year

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The recession has folks eating at home more often and apparently, they’re eating more cheese.

Wisconsin’s cheese production for March was up a whopping 6.5 percent from the same time a year ago.

The Badger State made just more than 223 million pounds of cheese in March. And the state’s increase was more than 2 percent above the national hike of 4.3. Total U.S. cheese production was 871 million pounds, and Wisconsin – as the nation’s No. 1 cheese state made just over a quarter of that.

California is No. 2, and their output was 0.1 percent less than the previous year.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s butter production was down by 2.8 percent in March, at a time when the national out-put grew almost 4.5 percent. U.S. butter plants made a total of 145 million pounds in March.

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