Production way up at Wisconsin cheese factories
Wisconsin News-- Wisconsin cheese factories were extremely busy in August. Production grew by a whopping 7.93 percent over the same month a year ago – and the increase was more than three times the national hike of two-point-six percent.
Wisconsin cheese factories were extremely busy in August. Production grew by a whopping 7.93 percent over the same month a year ago – and the increase was more than three times the national hike of two-point-six percent.
Officials said Wisconsin made almost 234-million pounds of cheese in August, while second-place California had a four-percent drop in its output to around 180-million pounds. Wisconsin’s biggest increase was for American cheeses, with production up eight-percent. Italian cheese production was up by seven-point-three percent, and cheddar output was up five-and-a-half percent.
Meanwhile, the government also had good news for milk producers.
The September producer price for Class-Three milk is at 19-dollars per hundred-pounds produced. That’s up by over a-dollar-and-a-quarter from August, but it’s seven-cents lower than a year ago. The price for Class-Two milk is $17.04, up $1.40 from August but down just over three-and-a-half dollars from last September.
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