Since 1876 W S l y CHEESE REPORTER Issues/2016/May 6, 2016.pdfProposal For Cash Market For Sweet Dry Whey Powder Submitted To CME Group Vol. 140, No. 46 • Friday, May 6, 2016 •

Proposal For Cash Market For Sweet Dry Whey Powder Submitted To CME Group

Vol 140 No 46 bull Friday May 6 2016 bull Madison Wisconsin

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CHEESE REPORTER

US Dairy Exports Fell 31 In March First-Quarter Exports Declined 19

March exports of nonfat dry milk totaled 908 million pounds down 25 percent from March of 2015 During the first three months of this year NDM exports totaled 2766 million pounds down slightly from the first three months of last year

Dried whey exports dur-ing March totaled 238 million pounds down 39 percent from March of 2015 January-March dried whey exports totaled 829 million pounds down 17 percent from the same period in 2015

Whey protein concentrate exports during March totaled 18 million pounds up 6 percent from March of 2015 WPC exports dur-ing the first quarter of 2016 totaled 567 million pounds up 26 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Lactose exports during March totaled 636 million pounds down 18 percent from March of 2015 January-March lactose exports totaled 1873 million pounds up 3 percent from a year earlier

Butter exports during March totaled 19 million pounds down 57 percent from March of 2015

bull See March Dairy Trade p 10

Proposal Is Joint Effort By Innovation Center For US Dairy ADPIrsquos Whey Task ForceChicagomdashA proposal for a cash market for sweet dry whey powder was submitted early last month to the CME dairy markets team according to Mike McCully president of The McCully Group

A joint effort between the Innovation Centerrsquos risk man-agement work team and ADPIrsquos whey task force developed the proposal for the CME to intro-duce the dry whey cash market to improve price discovery for the whey complex McCully explained at last weekrsquos ADPIABI annual conference in Chi-cago

Many industry participants believe the USDA reported

prices for whey products (includ-ing dry whey and whey protein concentrate-34 percent) are not reflective of spotcash market conditions McCully said While this has occurred in the past the impacts were more dramatic in 2015 for both buyers and sellers

Problems in whey price report-ing closely mirror past problems with nonfat dry milk pricing in thhe US McCully noted An industry task force through the Innovation Center for US Dairy developed solutions to improve the price discovery mechanisms for nonfat dry milk

For a number of years the dairy industry has used the CME spot markets for price discovery for cheese and butter as well as non-fat dry milk The cheese indus-

bull See Dry Whey Proposal p 8

Cheese Production Rose 18 In March Cheddar Output Fell 09 Butter Production Rose 86 Yogurt Output DeclinedWashingtonmdashUS cheese produc-tion during March totaled 1029 billion pounds up 18 percent from March of 2015 USDArsquos National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reported Thursday

Cheese output during the first quarter of 2016 (which had an extra day due to leap year) totaled 2988 billion pounds up 29 per-cent from the first quarter of 2015

Regional cheese production during March with comparisons to March of 2015 was Central 4591 million pounds up 35 per-cent West 4449 million pounds up 16 percent and Atlantic 1254 million pounds down 35 percent

March cheese production in the states broken out by NASS with comparisons to March of 2015 was Wisconsin 2719 million pounds up 47 percent Califor-nia 2144 million pounds up 12 percent Idaho 83 million pounds up 09 percent New York 698 million pounds down 42 percent New Mexico 693 million pounds up 23 percent Minnesota 559 million pounds down 4 percent Pennsylvania 332 million pounds down 26 percent South Dakota 223 million pounds down 76 per-cent Iowa 199 million pounds up 64 percent Ohio 182 million pounds up 26 percent Vermont 103 million pounds down 29 per-cent Illinois 7 million pounds up 38 percent and New Jersey 52 million pounds down 29 percent

bull See Cheese Output Up p 6

Dairy Imports Down 1 In March But Up 3 In First Quarter Cheese Exports Fell In March Cheese Imports RoseWashingtonmdashThe value of US dairy exports during March was $3789 million down 31 percent from March of 2015 according to figures released Wednesday by USDArsquos Foreign Agricultural Ser-vice (FAS)

US dairy exports have now been under $400 million in value for five consecutive months Two years ago in March of 2014 US dairy exports set a new single-month record at $7167 million

During the first quarter of 2016 US dairy exports were valued at $1116 billion down 19 percent from the first quarter of 2015

US dairy imports during March were valued at $2671 million down 1 percent from March of 2015

During the first quarter of 2016 dairy imports were valued at $7753 million up 3 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Leading destinations for US dairy exports on a value basis dur-ing the first quarter of this year with comparisons to the first quar-ter of last year were Mexico $2983 million down 12 percent Canada $1485 million up 5 per-cent China $752 million down 27 percent the Philippines $555 million down 17 percent Japan $544 million down 28 percent and South Korea $521 million down 52 percent

Cheese exports during March totaled 561 million pounds down 26 percent from March of 2015 During the first quarter of 2016 cheese exports totaled 158 million pounds down 18 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Leading destinations for US cheese exports during the first quarter of 2016 on a volume basis with comparisons to the first quar-ter of 2015 were Mexico 546 mil-lion pounds up 10 percent South Korea 215 million pounds down 52 percent Japan 183 million pounds down 20 percent Austra-lia 78 million pounds down 32 percent and Canada 55 million pounds down 16 percent

AMS Dairy Grading Inspection Fees Either Unchanged Or Lower Starting On Oct 1 2016WashingtonmdashUSDArsquos Agricul-tural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the rates it will be charging starting on October 1 2016 for voluntary grading inspection certification auditing and laboratory services for a vari-ety of agricultural commodities including dairy products

The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 provides for the collection of fees to cover costs of various inspection grading certification or auditing services covering many agricultural commodities and prod-ucts including dairy products

On November 13 2014 USDA published a final rule that estab-lished standardized formulas for calculating the fees charged by

bull See AMS Dairy Fees p 3

$120

$135

$150

$165

$180

$195

$210

April Prices ndash 2015 vs 2016Average CME Prices Class III amp 4b Milk Price x 10

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FDArsquos proposed menu labeling rule ran a total of 46 pages in the Federal Register the final rule more than dou-bled that running 105 pages

Past Issues Read this weekrsquos issue or past issues of Cheese Reporter on your mobile phone or tablet by scanning this QR code

Consequences Of Some Laws Are Felt For Many Years

D I C K G R O V E S

Publisher EditorCheese Reportere dgrovescheesereportercomtw cheesereporter

EDITORIAL COMMENT

Laws have consequences Some-times these consequences are known pretty quickly such as in the case of a new farm bill and sometimes it takes years before the consequences of some laws are fully understood

We are reminded of this point from time to time in the heavily regulated dairy industry And wersquore not even going to mention (except for right now) the Food Safety Modernization Act the imple-mentation of which has dragged on through proposed rules supple-mental proposed rules extended comment periods at least one lawsuit final rules meetings webi-nars staggered compliance dates and more

Two recent examples have helped to make this point and also to illustrate just how long the regu-latory process can drag on after leg-islation is passed by Congress and signed into law by the President

Back in 2010 Congress passed the highly controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act more commonly known just as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare Buried in that law (which has a total of 10 titles or two less than the 2014 farm bill) in Section 4205 (Title IV is ldquoPre-vention of Chronic Diseases and Improving Public Healthrdquo) is a requirement for nutrition labeling of standard menu items at chain restaurants

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law back on March 23 2010 and last Fri-day more than six years after the ACA became law the US Food and Drug Administration issued final guidance on the menu label-ing section of the ACA

The menu labeling regulation has had a rather lengthy history FDA initially published a proposed rule on menu labeling back in April of 2011 More than three and one-half years later on December 1 2014 the agency published a final menu labeling rule

FDA received about 900 com-ments on its proposed menu label-

ing rule The final rule includes the agencyrsquos responses to many of these comments

A couple of numbers can help put the complexity of this pro-cess into perspective First FDArsquos proposed menu labeling rule ran a total of 46 pages in the Federal Register the final rule more than doubled that running 105 pages

Second the main reason the final rule ran so long was because FDA responded to numerous com-ments in that final rule Specifi-cally FDArsquos final rule included the agencyrsquos responses to a total of 155 comments that were submitted in response to the proposed rule

But that wasnrsquot the end of it FDA last Friday published its final industry menu labeling guid-ance the draft guidance had been released last September That final guidance runs some 58 pages

The agency said it will begin enforcing the menu labeling rule one year after a ldquoNotice of Avail-abilityrdquo for the final guidance is published Thatrsquos some seven years and a few weeks after Obama signed the ACA into law

Also back in 2010 Congress passed something called the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 That law was (at least compared to the ACA) relatively short it only had four titles and ran all of 84 pages in its final form

But the dairy industry is still dealing with regulations stem-ming from the HHFKA Just last week (as reported on our front page last week) USDArsquos Food and Nutrition Service published a final rule that updates the meal pattern requirements for the Child and Adult Care Food Program as required by the HHFKA

USDA had published a proposed rule on the CACFP back in Janu-ary of 2015 The agency received a whopping total of 7755 com-ments on that proposal of which 6508 were copies of form letters related to 32 different mass mail campaigns Those comments aside USDA received over 1200 unique submissions

And the final rule included USDArsquos response to a number of those comments Indeed USDArsquos final rule runs some 37 pages in the Federal Register and over a dozen of those pages are devoted to comments on various aspects of the proposed rule and USDArsquos response to those comments And none of USDArsquos proposals were without controversy (as least as indicated by comments)

For example USDArsquos proposal would have eliminated the option to serve cheese cottage cheese or cheese food or spread to infants and would have continued to prohibit serving yogurt to infants Several entities expressed support for this proposal but a larger portion of commenters voiced opposition to restricting cowrsquos milk products for older infants

USDArsquos final rule modified the proposed rule to allow cheese cot-tage cheese and yogurt as allow-able meat alternates for infants six through 11 months of age but the final rule still does not allow the service of cheese foods or cheese spreads under the infant meal pat-tern

The HHFKA is further compli-cated because it requires USDA to update the meal pattern require-ments for the CACFP to better align them with the Dietary Guide-lines for Americans The HHFKA was signed into law back in 2010 The 2010 update to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans wasnrsquot released until January of 2011 and then the 2015 update was released in early January of this year

Laws like the ACA and the HHFKA require federal agencies to promulgate numerous regula-tions that have various impacts on the dairy and food industries And laws sometimes obligate the agen-cies to use other government edicts in their regulations

Bottom line what happens in Washington these days can and will have a future impact on dairy businesses Watch Congress now and find out what to beware of in say the year 2022

CHEESE REPORTERMay 6 2016 Page 3

For more information circle 1 on the Reader Response Card on p 14

per pound) down 27 percent That was for Contract 2

Buttermilk powder The aver-age winning price was $1366 per ton (62 cents per pound) down 55 percent That was for Contract 2

In other international dairy price developments the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported Thursday that the FAO Food Price Index averaged 1518 points in April up 11 points (07 percent) from March but almost 10 percent below its April 2015 level A relatively strong increase in vegetable oil quotations coupled with a more modest gain in inter-national prices of cereals more than offset a decline in dairy and sugar prices

The FAO Dairy Price Index averaged 1274 points in April down 29 points or 22 percent from March Thatrsquos the lowest level for the FAO Dairy Price Index since April of 2009 when it was 1231 The FAO Dairy Price Index has now been under 150 for five consecutive months

Quotations for dairy products continue to be affected by ample world supplies and limited buy-ing interest from traditional dairy importers FAO noted

As was the case in March while prices for all dairy products fell those of butter and cheese were the most affected reflecting a build-up of stocks in the major exporting countries

World prices for skim milk pow-der have remained close to the European Union (EU) interven-tion price sustained by interven-tion purchases which have made stocks in the EU surge compared to April of last year a factor which has also lent a degree of stability to whole milk powder price quota-tions FAO said

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AMS Dairy Fees(Continued from p 1)

AMS user-funded programs including dairy grading and inspec-tion general specifications for approved plants and standards and grades of dairy products On April 9 2015 USDA published its first notice announcing the fiscal 2016 rates for these programs

The rates published today reflect direct and indirect costs of provid-ing services Direct costs include the cost of salaries employee ben-efits and if applicable travel and some operating costs Indirect or overhead costs include the cost of program and agency activities sup-porting the services provided to the industry

The formula used to calculate these rates also includes operat-ing reserve which may add to or draw upon the existing operating reserves

AMS dairy fees beginning Octo-ber 1 2016 will be as follows

Continuous Resident Grading Service the regular rate will be $7600 per hour unchanged from the current rate the overtime rate will be $9092 per hour down from the current rate of $11400 per hour and the holiday rate will be $10724 per hour down from the current $15200 per hour

Non-resident and Intermittent Grading Service state graders equipment review the regular rate will be $8200 per hour unchanged from the current rate the overtime rate will be $9676 per hour down from the current rate of $12300 per hour and the holiday rate will be $11664 per hour down from the current rate of $16400

Non-resident services 600 pm-600 am the regular rate will be $9020 per hour unchanged from the current rate the over-time rate will be $10644 per hour down from the current $13530 per hour and the holiday rate will be $12832 per hour down from the current $18040 per hour

Export Certificate Services the regular rate will be $8200 per hour

Special Handling the regular rate will be $4100 per hour

Derogation Application the rate will be $12300 per hour unchanged from the current rate

Fax charge the regular rate will be $400 per hour unchanged from the current rate

When possible AMS said it is adjusting the rates to cover all of its expenses and to provide for reasonable operating reserves Many of the rates have not been adjusted for a number of years In some cases fees are decreased due to efficiencies and cost-cutting measures AMS noted

For more information contact Sonia Jimenez AMS at (202) 720-6766 or e-mail soniajimenezamsusdagov

Global Dairy Trade Price Index Drops 14 Cheddar WMP Rennet Casein Prices Rise

FAO Dairy Price Index Declined 22 In AprilAuckland New ZealandmdashThe price index on this weekrsquos semi-monthly Global Dairy Trade (GDT) dairy commodity auction declined 14 percent from the pre-vious auction held two weeks ago

That was the first decline in the GDT price index since the second auction in March In this weekrsquos auction prices were higher for Cheddar cheese whole milk pow-der and rennet casein and lower for skim milk powder butter anhy-drous milkfat lactose and butter-milk powder

Results from this weekrsquos GDT trading event with comparisons to the trading event held two weeks ago were as follows

Cheddar cheese The average winning price was $2727 per met-ric ton ($124 per pound) up 18 percent Average winning prices were Contract 1 (June) $2645 per ton down 38 percent and Contract 2 (July) $2733 per ton up 22 percent

Skim milk powder The aver-age winning price was $1676 per ton (76 cents per pound) down 36 percent Average winning prices were Contract 1 $1671 per ton down 42 percent Con-tract 2 $1641 per ton down 36 percent Contract 3 (August) $1711 per ton down 19 percent Contract 4 (September) $1700 per ton down 33 percent Con-tract 5 (October) $1723 per ton down 72 percent and Contract 6 (November) $1762 per ton down 51 percent

Whole milk powder The aver-age winning price was $2176 per

ton (99 cents per pound) up 07 percent Average winning prices were Contract 1 $2113 per ton down 09 percent Contract 2 $2163 per ton up 34 percent Contract 3 $2218 per ton up 14 percent Contract 4 $2242 per ton down 1 percent Contract 5 $2218 per ton down 49 percent and Contract 6 $2225 per ton down 27 percent

Butter The average winning price was $2601 per ton ($118 per pound) down 55 percent Aver-age winning prices were Contract 1 $2651 per ton down 17 per-cent Contract 2 $2578 per ton down 57 percent Contract 3 $2608 per ton down 4 percent Contract 4 $2571 per ton down 75 percent Contract 5 $2625 per ton down 77 percent and Con-tract 6 $2685 per ton down 69 percent

Anhydrous milkfat The aver-age winning price was $3195 per ton ($145 per pound) down 16 percent Average winning prices were Contract 1 $3248 per ton down 01 percent Contract 2 $3148 per ton down 34 percent Contract 3 $3199 per ton down 16 percent Contract 4 $3195 per ton down 08 percent Contract 5 $3253 per ton up 14 percent and Contract 6 $3239 per ton down 03 percent

Rennet casein The average winning price was $5024 per ton ($228 per pound) up 35 percent Average winning prices were Contract 1 $5142 per ton up 36 percent Contract 2 $5216 per ton up 38 percent and Contract 3 $4784 per ton up 28 percent

Lactose The average winning price was $693 per ton (314 cents


from our archives

50 YEARS AGOMay 6 1966 ChicagomdashThe Pure Milk Association launched a new pooling program this week for its Chicago market producers who have been delivering milk to deal-ers under the Chicago federal mar-ket order program which came to an end this week after more than 27 years of operation

WashingtonmdashAgricultural author-ities in Europe are showing increas-ing concern over the widespread reports of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle on the continent Many countries have placed embargoes on the shipment of meat and live-stock from infected areas

25 YEARS AGOMay 3 1991 MadisonmdashThe Wisconsin Senate this week voted in favor of extending the statersquos current moratorium on bovine somatotropin for another two years until June 1 1993 Under the moratorium no per-son may administer supplemen-tal BST to cows unless that person is participating in sci-entific research that the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin system must conduct on the efficacy of supplemental BST in commercial milk pro-duction

ChicagomdashA legal brief submitted to USDA this week by a coalition of Upper Midwest organizations would set a base Class I differen-tial of $180 per hundredweight in all markets and make several other changes in the federal order system

10 YEARS AGOMay 5 2006 Winsted MNmdashTim High president of Carl-isle Process Systems (CPS) and Goran Olsson vice president of processing for Tetra Pak Inc this week provided more specific information on the announce-ment that the CPS European and US Cheese and Powder Divisions and the UK Dairy Food and Beverage Division have been sold to Tetra Pak

Sacramento CAmdashBased on newly available information the Dairy Institute of California has amended the proposed changes to the Class 4a and Class 4b pricing formulas that were included in the petition it submitted in early Feb-ruary to the CDFA Several other dairy industry organizations have also offered alternative proposals for consideration

J O H N U M H O E F E R

Executive DirectorWisconsin Cheese Makers Association

608-828-4550jumhoefer wischeesemakersorg

Internet Coins a Cheese Mountain

WCMA PERSPECTIVES

A Bloomberg article on cheese stocks ndash ldquoThe US is sitting on a Mountain of Cheeserdquo ndash lit up Internet media and bloggers this week offering a window on how consumer opinion leaders view dairy

Bloomberg built its article around an obscure fact cold storage data for cheese comparing March data year over year finds stocks at an all-time high And while cheese in storage is up the missed story is booming worldwide milk produc-tion and cheese production

Itrsquos as if Bloomberg reported on a hurricane by counting the record number of puddles the next day

Herersquos four conclusions from mediarsquos latest dip into dairy

1 An Upbeat ResponseCopy-cat articles and bloggers took an upbeat tone such as this con-cluding paragraph from Smithson-ian ldquoThe US may be built upon a veritable ocean of stockpiled cheese but for residents this is no queso emergency It sounds too Gouda to be truemdashbut it isrdquo The media was never as friendly about the government-held dairy stocks in the 1980s

ldquoFor the rest of us it just means we need to chow down on lots of cheesemdashfor the good of the coun-tryrdquo Cosmopolitan joked ldquoAs a huge fan of cheese I am delighted to tell you that the US currently

has a cheese surplusrdquo wrote Liz Magee on Frisky

2 A European ScapegoatBloomberg and followers placed blame for Americarsquos growing cheese stocks on Europe with barely a mention of rising US milk and cheese production By the second paragraph Bloomberg condemns ldquoThe reason is the US is sitting on more butter and cheese than it knows what to do with and the Europeans are to blamerdquo

Yes EU milk production is up ndash 35 percent since quotas were lifted last spring ndash and cheese imports from the EU are soaring The EU imported 17 percent more cheese into the US in 2015 than 2014 ndash 47 million more pounds But US cheese production rose 326 mil-lion pounds in 2015 ndash a far larger contributor to cheese stocks than European imports

Bloomberg lamented the fate of EU dairy farmers ldquoEven though sales increased things are still pretty dire for European dairy farmers whorsquove warned for months that rock-bottom prices risk put-ting them out of businessrdquo

3 What about our FarmsAmazingly the US dairy farmer remained unmentioned in the Bloomberg article Milk prices have headed south The ldquoAll Milkrdquo Price in Wisconsin held steady in the

$17-$18 dollar per hundredweight range in 2015 but has dropped to $1580cwt in March 2016 The last time the weekly average price for block Cheddar at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange matched last weekrsquos $138 was March 2007

In 2015 Wisconsin produced 43 percent more milk New York rose 27 percent while the nation as a whole produced 12 percent more In March 2016 US milk pro-duction rose 18 percent ndash and 53 percent in Wisconsin 55 percent in New York and 77 percent in Michigan Rising milk production will hit dairy farm income state-ments hard in 2016 but consumer media is more intrigued with the easy visual of a ldquocheese mountainrdquo

4 The Bigger PictureThe cold storage data that launched this weekrsquos look at dairy is barely news America has made more cheese every year for the last 20 years ndash is it surprising that warehouse stocks trend upwards Undoubtedly warehouses are full of cheese but the March 2016 hold-ings are only 35 percent higher than May 2013 stocks

Herersquos the point Now more than ever before news is manu-factured for impact and echoes through hundreds of on-line out-lets For an industry managing the message is harder than ever before This weekrsquos chat about a cheese mountain missed the bigger picture of economic repercussions from global growth in dairy But the tone was a hit the happy spin bloggers put on the idea of new cheese mountain affirms Americarsquos positive view of US cheese today

John Umhoefer has served as executive direc-tor of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association since 1992 You can phone John at (608) 828-4550 Fax him at (608) 828-4551 or e-mail John Umhoefer at jumhoeferwischeesemakersorg


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PROLAMINAPurchaser of W amp W Dairy Queso Fresco

SEPARATORS INCPurchaser of Zimmerman Cheesersquos Brick amp Pine River Dairyrsquos Flavored Butter

CHR HANSENPurchaser of Chalet Cheese Baby Swiss

EMMI ROTHPurchaser of Uplands Extra-Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve

LOOS MACHINEPurchaser of Biery Pasteurized Process Cheese

ANDRITZ SEPARATIONPurchaser of Carr Valley Cheeses

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MASTERS GALLERY WI AGING amp GRADINGPurchaser of Pine River Cold Pack Cheese Food

MASTERS GALLERYPurchaser of Agropur Luxemburg Chula Vista for VampV Supremo ILBESA amp Lopicomo SL Cheeses

VampV SUPREMOPurchaser of Masterrsquos Gallery Foods amp Quesos Navarros cheeses

TC JACOBYPurchaser of Tillamook County Creamery amp The World Champion Emmi Roth USArsquos Grand Cru Surchiox

GEA NORTH AMERICAPurchaser of Almenland Stollenkaumlse Joseph Gallo Arla Foods BelGioioso Cheese Lactalis American Group Parmalat Foremost Farms amp Glanbia cheeses

DR TECHPurchaser of Surefire Schumanrsquos

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MILK SPECIALTIES GLOBALPurchaser of Williamrsquos Cheese Company Spreadable Cheese

PROACTIVE SOLUTIONSPurchaser of Marieke Gouda Caraway

CARGILLPurchaser of California Dairies Butter and Cream Cheese

MCTPurchaser of Urnaumlscher Milchspezialitaumlten AG

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DDWPurchaser of Beemster Cheese FrieslandCampina amp Wingaard Kaas cheeses

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NELSON-JAMESONPurchaser of Associated Milk Producers Inc ColbyJack

DUPONTPurchaser of Empire Aged Provolone and Smoked Provolone

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Cheese Output Up(Continued from p 1)

American-type cheese production during March totaled 3994 mil-lion pounds up 09 percent from March of 2015 American-type cheese output during the first quar-ter of 2016 totaled 1167 billion pounds up 1 percent from the first quarter of 2015

March American-type cheese output in the states broken out by NASS with comparisons to March of 2015 was Wisconsin 80 million pounds up 42 percent California 565 million pounds up 07 percent Idaho 501 mil-lion pounds down 29 percent Oregon 171 million pounds up 12 percent Iowa 119 million pounds up 62 percent New York 11 million pounds down 48 per-cent and Pennsylvania 49000 pounds unchanged

Cheddar production dur-ing March totaled 2845 million pounds down 09 percent from March of 2015 January-March Cheddar output totaled 8385 mil-lion pounds down 09 percent from the same period in 2015

Production of other American-type cheeses during March totaled 1149 million pounds up 56 per-cent from March of 2015

Italian-Type Other CheesesMarch production of Italian-type cheeses totaled 4591 million pounds up 43 percent from March of 2015 Italian cheese output dur-ing the first quarter of 2016 totaled 1318 billion pounds up 44 per-cent from the first quarter of 2015

Italian cheese production dur-ing March was California 1404

million pounds up 46 percent Wisconsin 1376 million pounds up 58 percent New York 326 million pounds up slightly Idaho 269 million pounds up 85 per-cent and Pennsylvania 203 mil-lion pounds down 36 percent

Mozzarella production dur-ing March totaled 3593 million pounds up 48 percent from March of 2015 January-March Mozz out-put totaled 1029 billion pounds up 4 percent from a year earlier

March production of other Ital-ian cheese varieties with com-parisons to March of 2015 was Provolone 335 million pounds up 62 percent Parmesan 318 million pounds up 33 percent Ricotta 243 million pounds up 26 percent Romano 41 million pounds up 3 percent and other Italian types 62 million pounds down 175 percent

Production of other cheese vari-eties during March was

Swiss cheese 261 million pounds down 2 percent

Cream and Neufchatel 695 million pounds down 24 percent

Brick and Muenster 142 mil-lion pounds down 39 percent

Hispanic cheese 227 million pounds down 2 percent

Blue and Gorgonzola 82 mil-lion pounds up 01 percent

Feta 112 million pounds up 128 percent

Gouda 54 million pounds down 164 percent

All other types of cheese 137 million pounds down 87 percent

Whey Products ProductionMarch production of dry whey human and animal totaled 83 million pounds down 45 percent

from March of 2015 Manufactur-ersrsquo stocks of dry whey human and animal at the end of March totaled 773 million pounds up 68 percent from a year earlier but down 03 percent from a month earlier

Production of whey protein concentrate human and animal in March totaled 383 million pounds down 91 percent from March of 2015 Manufacturersrsquo stocks of WPC human and ani-mal at the end of March totaled 1078 million pounds up 523 percent from a year earlier and up 127 percent from a month earlier

Butter Production JumpsMarch butter production totaled 182 million pounds up 86 per-cent from March of 2015 Butter output during the first quarter of 2016 totaled 532 million pounds up 7 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Regional butter production dur-ing March with comparisons to March of 2015 was West 898 million pounds up 88 percent Central 733 million pounds up 96 percent and Atlantic 189 million pounds up 44 percent

Nonfat dry milk production dur-ing March totaled 1716 million pounds down 51 percent from March of 2015 NDM output dur-ing the first three months of this year totaled 4489 million pounds down 101 percent from the first three months of last year

Manufacturersrsquo shipments of nonfat dry milk during March totaled 1547 million pounds down 35 percent from March of 2015 Manufacturersrsquo stocks of NDM at the end of March

totaled 2319 million pounds down 75 percent from a year earlier but up 71 percent from a month earlier

March production of other dry milk products with comparisons to March of 2015 was skim milk powder 406 million pounds up 28 percent dry whole milk 10 million pounds down 268 per-cent milk protein concentrate 15 milloin pounds up 233 percent and dry buttermilk 96 million pounds up 96 percent

Yogurt Output DeclinesMarch production of yogurt plain and flavored totaled 4133 million pounds down 53 percent from March of 2015 Yogurt output dur-ing the first three months of 2016 totaled 1205 billion pounds down 18 percent from the first three months of 2015

Sour cream production dur-ing March totaled 1149 mil-lion pounds up 36 percent from March of 2015 Sour cream output during the first quarter of this year totaled 3213 million pounds up 13 percent from the first quarter of last year

Cream cottage cheese produc-tion during March totaled 287 million pounds up 62 percent from March of 2015

Lowfat cottage cheese output during March totaled 343 million pounds up 67 percent from a year earlier

March production of regular ice cream totaled 705 million gallons down 18 percent from March of 2015 Lowfat ice cream output dur-ing March totaled 41 million gal-lons up 75 percent from March of 2015

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Wisconsinrsquos 2015 Specialty Cheese Production Rose 84 To A Record 7221 Million Pounds

Specialty Cheese Now Accounts For 24 Of Statersquos Cheese Output 93 Plants Produce At Least One Specialty CheeseMadisonmdashWisconsinrsquos specialty cheese production in 2015 reached a record high of 7221 million pounds up 84 percent or 561 million pounds from 2014 accord-ing to figures released this week by USDArsquos National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Specialty cheese accounted for 235 percent of Wisconsinrsquos total cheese production last year up from 229 percent in 2014

Of Wisconsinrsquos 127 cheese plants 93 manufactured at least one type of specialty cheese dur-ing 2015 two more plants than in 2014 (when the state had 125 cheese plants)

Wisconsin has been tracking the production of specialty cheese since 1993 The state produced a total of 831 million pounds of specialty cheese that year which accounted for 41 percent of Wis-consinrsquos total cheese output and 43 of the statersquos 158 cheese plants made at least one type of specialty cheese

According to the Wiscon-sin Specialty Cheese Institute (WSCI) the nature of specialty cheese is derived from one or more unique qualities such as exotic ori-gin particular processing or design limited supply unusual application or use and extraordinary packag-ing or channel of sale The com-mon denominator is its very high quality

Wisconsinrsquos specialty cheese production by variety last year with comparisons to 2014 was as follows

Feta Production totaled 868 million pounds up 59 percent from 2014 There were 10 Wiscon-sin plants producing Feta cheeese last year one more than in 2014

Hispanic cheese Production totaled 772 million pounds up 73

percent from 2014 There were 13 plants producing Hispanic cheese in Wisconsin last year unchanged from 2014

Parmesan Wheel Production totaled 575 million pounds up 1 percent from 2014 There were six plants producing Parmesan wheels in Wisconsin last year unchanged from 2014

Asiago Production totaled 319 million pounds up 31 percent from 2014 There were 13 plants producing Asiago in Wisconsin last year two more than in 2014

Cheddar (specialty types only) Production totaled 276 million pounds down 44 percent from 2014 There were 36 plants pro-ducing specialty Cheddar in Wis-consin last year four more than in 2014

Gorgonzola Production totaled 192 million pounds up 35 per-cent from 2014 There were 10 plants producing Gorgonzola in Wisconsin last year unchanged from 2014

Gouda Production totaled 118 million pounds up 31 percent from 2014 There were 21 plants producing Gouda cheese in Wis-consin last year one fewer than in 2014

Romano Wheel Production totaled 99 million pounds down 73 percent from 2014 There were six plants producing Romano wheels in Wisconsin last year unchanged from 2014

Italian Fontina Production totaled 92 million pounds up 1 percent from 2014 There were nine plants producing Italian Fon-tina in the state last year one fewer than in 2014

Colby (specialty types only) Production totaled 81 million pounds up 03 percent from 2014 There were 10 plants producing specialty Colby cheese in Wis-consin last year four fewer than in 2014

Farmers cheese Production totaled 15 million pounds up 08 percent from 2014 There were 11 plants producing Farmers cheese

in Wisconsin last year two fewer than in 2014

Limburger Production totaled 481000 pounds down 113 per-cent Just one Wisconsin cheese plant produced Limburger cheese last year unchanged from 2014

All other types Production totaled 3811 million pounds up 135 percent from 2014 There were 59 plants producing all other types of specialty cheese in Wis-consin last year two fewer than in 2014

Cheese varieties included in the ldquoall other typesrdquo category (where types are combined to avoid dis-

closure of individual plant data) are Alpine American Grana Auribella Blue Brie Camembert Butterkase Edam Fior di Latte Fontiago Fontinella Gruyere Havarti other specialty Ital-ian Italico Juustoleipa Kefalo-graviera Sagana Kasseri Kreme Kaese Mascarpone Middle East-ern cheeses specialty Monterey Jack Morning Sun specialty Moz-zarella other specialty Parmesan Pepato Peperon specialty Pro-volone Raclette other specialty Romano Swedish style Fontina specialty Swiss Tvarog Polish and Yogurt cheese

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EMILY MEREDITH formerly vice president of animal care for the National Milk Produc-ers Federation (NMPF) has been promoted to NMPF chief of staff In this role Meredith will be responsible for planning oversight and management of staff activities She has served as NMPFrsquos vice president of animal care and manager of the FARM Program since 2014 She will con-tinue to oversee the FARM Pro-gram with support from new staff members EMILY YEISER STEPP FARM Program manager and BEVERLY HAMPTON FARM coordinator For the past four years Yeiser Stepp has served as the dairy initiatives manager for the Center for Dairy Excellence in Harrisburg PA

Rich Stammer Receives ADPI Award Of MeritChicagomdashRich Stammer who held leadership positions at Agri-Mark and Cabot Creamery as well as in n u m e r o u s industry orga-n i z a t i o n s r e c e i v e d the Ameri-can Dairy P r o d u c t s I n s t i t u t e rsquo s ( A D P I ) 2016 Award of Merit here last week

Stammer received the award during the recognition luncheon at the annual ADPIAmerican Butter Institute (ABI) annual

conference He was introduced by Jane Carlisle of United Inter-national

After serving as a tenured pro-fessor of agricultural economics at Rutgers University for 11 years Stammer in 1982 changed paths and accepted a position at Agri-Mark Starting out as the senior vice president of economics and communications he moved on to COO of Agri-Mark CEO of Cabot Creamery and president and CEO of Agri-Mark

Among Stammerrsquos contribu-tions to Agri-Markrsquos growth playing a leading role in the merger with Cabot Creamery After the merger under Stam-merrsquos leadership the Cabot brand grew from a small regional brand to what is described as the fourth largest Cheddar brand in the US Over this time Agri-MarkCabot invested over $300 million in plants and operating equipment to meet the needs of a growing business and a changing dairy marketplace

Rich Stammer has served as president of both ADPI and ABI in addition to numerous boards and councils in the dairy industry

Verle Christensen 94 a bio-chemist who was awarded three patents for culture methods that helped transform the cheese industry died Dec 25 2015 Christensen was born on a dairy farm near Westfield WI and had a long career as a biochemist and corporate executive Christensen served as president of Bayerrsquos Madison WI-based Marschall Products division travelling across the globe teaching the use of his culture methods

RECOGNITION

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Dr Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo assistant professor in dairy science at South Dakota State University presents Kaelyn Dammann a junior at SDSU with the 2016 WOW Logistics Scholarship in dairy science Dammann was presented with the $1000 scholarship April 14 at the SDSU dairy science department annual scholarship banquet A native of Mitchell SD Dammann is majoring in dairy manufacturing and will graduate in May 2017 In addition to being a full-time student Dammann is working and receiving training at the Davis Dairy Plant that opened at SDSU in 2011

SDSUrsquos Kaelyn Dammann Receives $1000 WOW Logistics Scholarship

Dry Whey Proposal(Continued from p 1)

tryrsquos cash market moved from the National Cheese Exchange in Green Bay WI to the CME in the spring of 1997 while the CME began trading a daily cash mar-ket in nonfat dry milk beginning on September 1 1998 (that was the same time that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange moved from weekly to daily trading for its cash cheese markets)

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has had a cash market for butter for several decades

The development of a central-ized dry whey cash market at the CME would provide the industry with several key benefits McCully noted including

Timely a cash price that reflects current market conditions as opposed to lagging indicators in USDArsquos National Dairy Products Sales Report (NDPSR) and Dairy Market News reports

Broader participation allows for brokers and secondary sales and improves the timeliness of price transmission to the market-place

New benchmark over time the CME cash price could become a price discovery mechanism if the industry voluntarily so chooses as it has in the cases of cheese but-ter and more recently nonfat dry milk

Reduces basis risk thereby improving the effectiveness of

futures and options contracts for risk management

The CME has been offering dry whey futures and options contracts since November of 1998 Current open interest is almost 5000 con-tracts

Input for the dry whey cash mar-ket was received from about 20 companies across the whey value chain McCully said That includes the Innovation Centerrsquos risk man-agement work team and the ADPI whey task force as well as input from other key stakeholders

Details of the CME spot dry whey market McCully explained include

Variety edible non-hydro-scopic sweet dry whey powder

Age maximum of four monthsGradeGrading Extra Grade

(Grade A product is allowed if it meets Extra Grade specification)

Packaging 25-kilogram and 50-pound bags

Location differentials uses nonfat dry milk location differen-tials

Maximum two lots per load and follow nonfat dry milk rules for sub-lots

Color use ADPIExtra Grade specification of off-white to cream

The CME dairy markets team will be reviewing the dry whey cash market proposal for any technical issues or questions and refining the proposed draft rules as neces-sary with ADPI and Innovation Center work teams given CME feedback McCully said



Dairy Ingredient Prices Could Rise Faster Than Expected TraderBelfast Northern IrelandmdashDairy commodity prices have hit the floor and food manufacturers should lock into a long-term deal quickly before they rise again a European trader says

According to Belfast-based Greenfields Ireland as soon as a market balance is achieved prices are almost certain to start increas-ing again This means now is the perfect time for food manufacturers in Europe to lock into a fixed-price deal for their dairy ingredients using a long-term pricing model

ldquoDo this today and it will be possible to benefit from low prices and insulate your business from the extreme price volatility thatrsquos been a characteristic of the Euro-pean dairy ingredients market over the past decaderdquo said Ian Thomas managing director of Greenfields

Ingredients the UK division of Greenfields Ireland

ldquoFor companies in the bakery confectionery and ready meals cat-egories who often use large vol-umes of dairy ingredients this is an opportunity thatrsquos simply too good to missrdquo Thomas continued ldquoWait too long however and it could be too late Intervention by the European Commission will take excess supplies of milk out of the market and product prices will soon start to creep uprdquo

Dairy ingredients are inexpen-sive right now because therersquos too much milk on the market and not enough demand

In Europe this has been caused in part by the abolition of milk quotas a year ago

With those quotas now elimi-nated dairy commodities are exposed to free market forces and right now those forces have sent prices crashing to the floor

But Thomas predicted that prices will not stay low for long

ldquoNow is the time to consider locking into a long-term pricing modelrdquo Thomas said ldquoThis will give you the assurance of knowing that when prices eventually rise which we expect them to do in the second half of 2016 the price you pay for your dairy ingredients will be more favorable than that avail-able on the market

ldquoConsidering the pressure major retailers put on their suppliers to keep a lid on raw material costs the peace of mind this offers could prove to be invaluablerdquo he added

Greenfields Ireland has devel-oped a range of pricing models that offer a way for food manufacturers to fix dairy commodity prices at current low levels

ldquoWhile your competitors are pulling their hair out at the pros-pect of an upswing in ingredient prices yoursquoll enjoy the benefits of cost protectionrdquo Thomas said

Lallemand Acquires Surface Ripening Cultures Business From DSM Food SpecialtiesMontreal QuebecmdashLalle-mand a global leader in yeast and bacteria has acquired the surface and ripening cultures business from DSM Food Spe-cialties

The acquisition was com-pleted last Friday and it includes surface and ripening strains of molds yeast and bacteria for soft cheese and dry fermented meat applications as well as related industrial and business assets including over 100 exist-ing commercial products

The surface and ripening cul-tures business of DSM will be incorporated into Lallemandrsquos Specialty Cultures business unit which is dedicated to the development and production of specialty cultures for food appli-cations

With this acquisition Lalle-mand Specialty Cultures said it has become one of the top three global leaders in surface and rip-ening cultures

New Rules Doubling EU Public Intervention Ceilings For Butter Skim Milk Powder Take EffectBrussels BelgiummdashNew rules doubling the European Unionrsquos (EU) public intervention ceil-ing for butter (from 50000 tons to 100000 tons) and skim milk powder (from 109000 tons to 218000 tons) have now for-mally entered into force having been adopted late last month

The increase in the inter-vention ceiling comes at a time when the volumes of skim milk powder bought up so far this year have already reached 109000 tons according to the European Commission

In fact with the limit hav-ing previously been reached last week saw the Commis-sion accept bids for skim milk powder under a tender system EU regulations set quantitative limitations for the buying-in of butter and skim milk powder at fixed prices once those limits are reached buying-in is to be carried out by way of a tender-ing procedure to determine the maximum buying-in price

With the increased ceiling now in place intervention buy-ing-in of skim milk powder has now reverted to the fixed price system


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March Dairy Trade(Continued from p 1)

Butter exports during the first three months of this year totaled 59 mil-lion pounds down 51 percent from the first three months of last year

March ice cream exports totaled 124 million pounds down slightly from March of 2015 During the first quarter of this year ice cream exports totaled 291 million pounds up 1 percent from the first quarter of last year

Cheese Imports IncreaseUS cheese imports during March totaled 406 million pounds up 16 percent from March of 2015 The value of those cheese imports $1127 million was up 2 percent

Cheese imports during the first quarter of 2016 totaled 1191 mil-lion pounds up 33 percent from the first quarter of 2015 The value

of those imports $3234 million was up 12 percent

Leading sources of US cheese imports during the first three months of this year on a volume basis with comparisons to the first three months of last year were

Italy 18 million pounds up 7 percent

New Zealand 177 million pounds up 214 percent

France 11 million pounds up 15 percent

Lithuania 94 million pounds up 309 percent

Spain 59 million pounds down 13 percent

Netherlands 57 million pounds down 10 percent

United Kingdom 48 million pounds up 55 percent

Ireland 45 million pounds up 15 percent

Australia 44 million pounds up 476 percent

Switzerland 43 million pounds down 1 percent

Germany 43 million pounds up 3 percent

Denmark 4 mil-lion pounds up 31 percent

Butter AMF Imports SoarImports of other (non-cheese) dairy products during March were valued at $1544 million down 2 percent from March of 2015

During the first quarter of this year imports of other dairy products were valued at $4519 million down 2 percent from the first quar-ter of last year

Leading sources of other US dairy imports on a value basis during the first three months of 2016 with comparisons to the first three months of 2015 were New Zealand $211 million down 6 percent Ireland $423 million up 70 percent Mexico $29 million up 35 percent and Canada $278 million down 2 percent

March imports of butter and other milkfat products primarily anhydrous milkfat (AMF) totaled 125 million pounds up 155 per-cent from March of 2015 Imports of these products during the first quarter of 2016 totaled 36 million pounds up 125 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Butter imports during March totaled 59 million pounds up 92 percent from March of 2015 But-ter imports during the first three months of 2016 totaled 169 mil-lion pounds up 93 percent from the first three months of 2015

Imports of other milkfat prod-ucts (primarily AMF excluding dairy spreads) during March totaled 65 million pounds up 265 per-cent from March of 2015 Imports of these products during the first quarter of 2016 totaled 188 mil-lion pounds up 184 percent from the first quarter of 2015

Casein imports during March totaled 9 million pounds down 5 percent from March of 2015 Casein imports during the first three months of this year totaled 254 million pounds down 2 per-cent from the first three months of last year

March imports of caseinates totaled 47 million pounds up 29 percent from March of 2015 Jan-uary-March imports of caseinates totaled 124 million pounds up 16 percent from the same period last year

Imports of Chapter 4 milk pro-tein concentrates (MPCs) during March totaled 95 million pounds down 9 percent from March of 2015 Imports of Chapter 4 MPCs during the first quarter of 2016 totaled 29 million pounds up 4 percent from the first quarter of 2015

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FDA Issues Final Menu Labeling Guidance FMI Wants More Flexibility Backs House BillWashingtonmdashThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday announced the publication of its final guidance on menu label-ing for restaurants and retail estab-lishments selling away-from-home foods

FDA had published a final rule on nutrition labeling of standard menu items in restaurants and similar retail establishments on December 1 2014 Draft guidance was issued last September

The agency said it intends to begin enforcing the menu labeling final rule one year from the date that the notice of availability is published in the Federal Register The notice was published Thursday

The final guidance document describes nutrition labeling that is required for foods sold in covered establishments how this informa-tion may be presented and when exempt foods must provide nutri-tion labeling The guidance also describes means by which nutrient values may be derived

Under the final rule restau-rants or similar retail food estab-lishments that a part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same name and offering for sale substantially the same menu items are required to provide nutrition labeling

Covered establishments may be delicatessens cafeteries coffee shops convenience stores bak-eries foodservice facilities and concession stands foodservice vendors (such as ice cream shops) food takeout and delivery estab-lishments (such as pizza takeout) grocery stores retail confectionary stores superstores quick service restaurants and table service res-taurants

In general covered establish-ments must provide the following nutrition information the number of calories contained in a standard menu item listed on a menu or menu board the number of calo-ries contained in a standard menu item that is a self-service food or food on display on a sign adjacent to the corresponding food and additional written nutrition infor-mation upon consumer request

However some foods such as temporary menu items daily specials and custom orders are not covered under these require-ments FDA refers to these items as ldquoexempt foodsrdquo

The menu or menu board must declare the calories for the basic preparation of the standrd menu item as listed (such as single scoop ice cream)

The calories must also be sepa-rately declared for each topping listed on the menu or menu board and indicate that the calories for each topping are added to the calo-ries in the basic preparation of the menu item

Covered establishments can use a table to declare the amount of calories for each topping listed on their menu or menu board

Nutrition information that must be available in written form on the premises of the covered establish-ment when a customer requests nutrition information includes total calories calories from fat total fat saturated fat trans fat cholesterol sodium total carbo-hydrate dietary fiber sugars and protein

Consumers will now ldquobe able to see how many calories are in the items theyrsquore considering at chains like Dominorsquos fast-food

restaurants sitdown chains like Applebeersquos or Cheesecake Factory supermarkets and convenience stores and even movie theatersrdquo said Margo G Wootan nutrition policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest

But Leslie Sarasin president and CEO of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) said the final guid-ance released by FDA ldquois largely a reprint of the draft guidance the agency released in September 2015 and did not incorporate the critical flexibility requested by the super-market industry to make chain res-taurant menu labeling regulations more practical in a grocery store setting for key areas including sig-nage at the salad bar or hot foods barrdquo

The supermarket industry ldquostill seeks flexilibity from FDA Spe-cifically food retailers wish to preserve their opportunity to sell locally produced foods that are sold at only one or two locations as well as their ability to use one signmenumenu board in a prepared foods area or next to a salad barrdquo Sarasin continued

Because FDA has been unable to address these issues through its guid-ance process Sarasin repeated the supermarket industryrsquos support for legislation that does address its con-cerns the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act which was passed by the House in February and is pend-ing in the US Senate

Under that legislation the nutrient content disclosure state-ment on the menu or menu board would have to include the number of calories contained in the whole menu item the number of servings and number of calories per serving or the number of calories per com-mon unit of the item such as for a multi-serving item that is typically divided before presentation to the consumer

Restaurant Performance Index Declined In March But Remains In Expansion TerritoryWashingtonmdashThe National Res-taurant Associationrsquos Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) stood at 1007 in March down 14 percent from Februaryrsquos leap year-bolstered level of 1021

The RPI is constructed so that the health of the restaurant indus-try is measured in relation to a steady-state level of 100 Index values above 100 indicate that key industry indicators are in a period of expansion while index values below 100 represent a period of contraction for key industry indi-cators

The RPI consists of two com-ponents the Current Situation Index and the Expectations Index The Current Situation Index which measures current trends in four industry indicators (same-store sales traffic labor and capi-tal expenditures) stood at 1002 in March down 26 percent from February

After being bolstered in Feb-ruary as a result of the extra day due to leap year same-store sales reverted back to levels seen during the previous three months Some 46 percent of restaurant opera-tors reported a same-store sales gain between March of 2015 and March of 2016 while 38 percent reported a sales decline

Customer traffic flipped nega-tive in March Only 26 percent of restaurant operators reported an increase in customer traffic between March of 2015 and March of 2016 while 46 percent reported a traffic decline

The Expectations Index which measures restaurant operatorsrsquo six-month outlook for four indus-try indicators (same-store sales employees capital expenditures and business conditions) stood at 1012 in March down 02 percent from February

Restaurant operatorsrsquo outlook for business conditions in the coming months continues to be mixed Some 38 percent of opera-tors expect to have higher sales in six months (compared to the same period in the previous year) down from 46 percent who reported sim-ilarly in February

Just 13 percent of operators expect their sales volume in six months to be lower than it was dur-ing the same period in the previous year while 49 percent expect their sales to remain about the same

Restaurant operators remain comparatively pessimistic about the direction of the overall econ-omy Only 15 percent of operators said they expect economic condi-tions to improve in six months while 22 percent expect condi-tions to worsen For more information circle 8 on the Reader Response Card on p 14


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Houston TXmdashA number of Show amp Sell Workshops have been scheduled in conjunction with the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) Seminar amp Expo here June 5-7 at the George R Brown Convention Center

The list of workshops for Sun-day June 5 includes Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert on food aller-gens and cheese industry expert Max McCalman on ldquoSpecialty Cheese ndash A Profit Powerhouse You Canrsquot Afford to Ignorerdquo

Norman Mayne CEO of Doro-thy Lane Market will talk small business survival and Loretta Carey US Food and Drug Admin-istration consumer safety officer will cover how to understand menu calorie labeling

Attendees will also learn about rules and regulations of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Its most impactful provi-sions for manufacturers and super-market retailers are the Foreign Supplier Verification Program the Preventive Controls for Human Food Final Rule Sanitary Trans-portation of Human and Animal Food Rule and the Intentional Adulteration Rule

Shawn Stevens of the Food Industry Council will detail these provisions and the steps necessary to achieve compliance in this ses-sion

Attendees will hear from Lidia Bastianich a James Beard acclaimed chef and co-owner of Eataly on the experience of Ital-ian food and culture along with a regional cooking demonstra-tion

Workshops for Monday June 6 include a second FSMA work-shop for those unable to attend the previous day and retail specialist Harold Lloyd on how to create well-written goals

Television personality Anthony Bourdain will talk about food dis-covery enjoyment and sociability followed by a second workshop on menu calorie labeling by FDArsquos Loretta Carey

Author restaurant consultant and entrepreneur Joshua Swanson will go through some tips to help make managing a companyrsquos social media presence less overwhelming and more fun and profitable

Finally IDDBArsquos Mary Kay OrsquoConnor and Kristi Grim with Food Allergy Research amp Educa-tion (FARE) will talk about the Focus on Allergens initiative cov-ering best practices through train-ing tools and resources that can help reduce the likelihood of aller-gic reactions from direct exposure and cross-contact in store-level fresh perimeter departments

For more details or to sign up online visit wwwiddbaorg

Max McCalman Anthony Bourdain Phil Lempert Lead IDDBA Show amp Sell Workshops June 5-6

WI Association For Food Protectionrsquos Food Safety Workshop Scheduled For June 9MadisonmdashOnline registration is available for a special workshop on meeting the challenges of todayrsquos food safety industry issues

Sponsored by the Wisconsin Association for Food Protection (WAFP) the workshop will take place here Thursday June 9 at the Holiday Inn amp Suites

It kicks off with a session by Steve Ingham division of food safety administrator for the Wis-consin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protec-tion (WDATCP) on changing together to ensure food safety

Matt Mathison with the Wis-consin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB) will cover record-keep-ing with preventive controls for human food in mind and Sargento Foodsrsquo Julie Carver will discuss corretive actions and root cause analysis

A session on listeria control in plant environments will be led by Tim Stuffs with Dairy Manage-ment Inc (DMI)

After lunch Noreen Ratzlaff (invited) with USDArsquos Agricul-tural Marketing Service (AMS) will talk about equipment design problems encountered in the real world

Tim Tolley (invited) with Excel Engineering Inc will cover reno-vation considerations for older plants and CDRrsquos Marianne Smukowski will highlight non-toxigenic E coli and other FDA initiatives

The workshop will conclude with Emila Rico (invited) of BCN Research Laboratories Inc on air quality control for yeast and mold control The workshop will adjourn at 4 pm

Cost to attend is $175 per per-son Registration and full event details are available online at wwwwifoodprotectionorg


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1 Equipment for Sale

FOR SALE 42000 pound Damrow deep make cook vat Please contact Tony Hook at Hookrsquos Cheese if inter-ested or wanting more information Email hookscheesegmailcom or phone 608-987-3259

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FOR SALE 1500 and 1250 cream tanks Like New (800) 558-0112 (262) 473-3530

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2 Equipment Wanted

WANTED TO BUY Westfalia or Alfa-Laval separators Large or small Old or new Top dollar paid Call Great Lakes Separators at (920) 863-3306 or email drlambertdialeznet

3 Cheesecloth

GO DIRECT CHEESECLOTH - All constructions medical grade Microfi-ber and dairy wipers too Contact Lucy Bauccio at Monarch Brands by emaill-ing lucybmonarchbrandscom or call 267-238-1643

4 Walls Flooring

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5 Real Estate

DAIRY PLANTS FOR SALE httpdairyassetswebscomdairy-plants Call Jim at 608-835-7705

6 Promotion amp Placement

PROMOTE YOURSELF - By con-tacting Tom Sloan amp Associates Job enhancement thru results oriented professionals We place cheese mak-ers production technical maintenance engineering and sales management people Contact Dairy Specialist David Sloan Tom Sloan or Terri Sherman Tom Sloan amp Associates Inc PO Box 50 Watertown WI 53094 Call (920) 261-8890 or FAX (920) 261-6357 or email tsloantsloancom

The ldquoIndustryrsquosrdquo Market Place for Products Services Equipment and Supplies Real Estate and Employee Recruitment

Regional Marketing ManagerWest Coast Region

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board is looking for a Regional Marketing Manager for its West Coast Region

The Opportunity We are looking for a sales or marketing person with exceptional management skills and experience in the foodservice and retail industry Reporting to a Channel Management Vice President the successful candidate will develop business relationships with key distributors operators and retailers in select US markets in accordance with the marketing plan This includes on-site training managing market promotions and market-level Wisconsin Cheese events It is an excellent opportunity to belong to an innovative organization in a growing industry

Our Requirements Qualified candidates must have at least five years of progressively responsible sales experience in the retail and foodservice industries preferably with a supplier distributor or retailer Broad knowledge of the retail and foodservice industries including distribution commercial operators marketing and sales and the ability to confidently speak in front of groups is essential Cheese company andor retail cheese industry experience is preferred Analytical organizational and computer skills with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office products is absolutely necessary A Bachelorrsquos Degree in Business or Marketing is preferred Must be willing to travel extensively

LocationCompensationBenefits This position will be located in a home office in the West Coast Region of the United States Compensation consists of a competitive salary and benefits package that includes a company-funded 401k retirement plan

WMMB is an equal opportunity employer

Please send resume to

Human Resources ManagerWisconsin Milk Marketing Board

8418 Excelsior DriveMadison WI 53717

Send faxes to 608-203-7343Email humanresourcewmmborg

General ManagerPlainview Milk Products Cooperative a 117 yr old Dairy Cooperative is seeking a qualified General Manager candidate This diverse and challenging position requires a working knowledge of accounting budgetfinance long and short term planning business process controls good communication supervisory public relations and organizational skills as well as good common sense and a functional knowledge of manufacturing facilities equipment processes and regulations A successful candidate will work extensively with customers vendors producers (member owners) employees inspectors and the Board of Directors Plainview Milk Products Cooperativersquos creamerydairy division has a daily volume of 13 million lbs of milk and produces and sells fluid milk cream condensed skim milk butter and dairy powders The Cooperativersquos Feed and Farm Supply facility ships an average 29 million lbs of feed per month and offers a full line of farm merchandise and seedPlainview Milk Products Cooperative offers a competitive salary Health Dental Life and Disability Insurance 401k and paid vacation Qualified Applicants should havenBachelors Degree Food Science Engineering Ag Business or commensurate experiencen7-10 years of food processing plant management operations and manufacturing experiencen5 years supervisory experiencenWorking knowledge and skill with government regulations and auditsnProficient computer skillsnKnowledge Safe Quality Foods programnSales experience

Qualified Candidates please submit resume and salary requirements before May 31 2016 to Kurt Weber 600 North 3rd Street Suite 204 La Crosse WI 54601 608-786-1774 kweberpfhrscom

Production SupervisorEstablished in 1899 as dairy cooperative servicing local patrons Plainview Milk Products is located 15 hrs from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis St Paul and 30 min-utes from Rochester in beautiful SE MinnesotaWe are looking for an experienced supervisor for our newly remodeled and automated dryer and evaporators to lead a team of production as-sociates and excel in our mission The Production Supervisor will assist in creating an atmosphere where people are Committed to what we want to become (our vision) able to execute our mission amp guided by our core values This position will oversee the operation of the Dryer and Evaporator plant while ensuring that all measures for Food Safety Quality Regulatory Stan-dards and Good Manufacturing Practices are followed The successful candidate will have excellent leadership planning organi-zational problem solving and interpersonal communication skills This posi-tion requires a Bachelorrsquos degree or equivalent in Dairy Science or related field and at least 3-5 yearsrsquo experience in a food manufacturing dairy environment We will offer the successful candidate a competitive wage health insur-ance benefits and paid vacation timeFor consideration please email fax or mail a cover letter resume and salary requirements to

Plainview Milk ProductsAttn Human Resources130 2nd St SW Plainview MN 55964Fax 507-534-3992E-Mail beckyplainviewmilkcom

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10 Cheese amp Dairy Products

FOR SALE Wisconsin 10 month aged StarK Kosher Parmesan and 3 month aged Asiago Shreds blocks chunks loaves For more information email ralphharmonyspecialtycom

KEYS MANUFACTURING Dehydrators of scrap cheese for the animal feed idustry Contact us for your scrap at (217) 465-4001 email keysmfgaolcom

14 Testing Services

WANTED USED VATS Two to four complete open cheese vats for making Cheddar cheese 18000 pounds or larger Also wanted two 25000 to 30000 gallon silo tanks in good condition Call George Haseotes at 617-448-4292

ULLMERrsquoS DAIRY EQUIPMENT is looking to buy used daisy hoops midget hoops A-frame presses 20 lb block molds watermilk silos homog-enizers and separators Please contact us at (920) 822-8266 or e-mail us at ullmersdairyeqptnetnetnet

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May 5 2016mdashAMSrsquo National Dairy Prod-ucts Sales Report Prices included are pro-vided each week by manufacturers Prices collected are for the (wholesale) point of sale for natural unaged Cheddar boxes of butter meeting USDA standards Extra Grade edible dry whey and Extra Grade and USPH Grade A nonfortified NFDM bull Revised

WEEK ENDINGStyle and Region April 30 April 23 April 16 April 9

40-Pound Block Cheddar Cheese Prices and Sales Weighted Price DollarsPoundUS 14607 14712bull 14948 15122Sales Volume PoundsUS 13607260 12848365bull 13605923 12779579

500-Pound Barrel Cheddar Cheese Prices Sales amp Moisture Contest

Weighted Price DollarsPoundUS 15452 15488bull 15816bull 15731 Weighted Price Adjusted to 38 Moisture US 14727 14778bull 14895bull 15010 Sales Volume PoundsUS 10394852 9836879bull 10899700bull 9758965 Weighted Moisture Content PercentUS 3495 3502bull 3499bull 3502

Butter

Weighted Price DollarsPoundUS 20719 20884 20514 19553Sales Volume PoundsUS 3353410 3401854 5450493 4261594

Dry Whey Prices

Weighted Price DollarsPoundsUS 02470 02419bull 02432 02498Sales Volume US 6643427 9826693bull 7197426 6982608

Nonfat Dry Milk

Average Price DollarsPoundUS 07256 07274bull 07247 07351Sales Volume PoundsUS 31393478 23182562bull 23817920bull 20362518

DAIRY PRODUCT SALES

Class III - Cheese Milk Price 2015 2016PRICE (per hundredweight) $1351 $1354SKIM PRICE (per hundredweight) $951 $601

Class II - Soft Dairy Products 2015 2016PRICE (per hundredweight) $1498 $1354BUTTERFAT PRICE (per pound) $19010 $22446SKIM MILK PRICE (per hundredweight) $863 $589

Class IV - Butter MP 2015 2016

PRICE (per hundredweight) $1351 $1268

SKIM MILK PRICE (per hundredweight) $713 $502

BUTTERFAT PRICE (per pound) $18940 $22376

NONFAT SOLIDS PRICE (per pound) $07926 $05573

PROTEIN PRICE (per pound) $25551 $18450

OTHER SOLIDS PRICE (per pound) $02698 $00489

SOMATIC CELL Adjust rate (per 1000 scc) $000081 $000075

AMS Survey Product Price Averages 2015 2016

Cheese US 40-block NASS $16122 $15041Butter CME $17355 $20192Nonfat Dry Milk $09684 $07307Dry Whey $04610 $02466

Class Milk amp Component PricesApril 2016 with comparisons to April 2015

DAIRY FUTURES PRICESSETTLING PRICE Cash SettledDate Month Class III Class IV Dry Whey NDM Butter Cheese4-29 May 16 1317 1339 23650 76625 211000 145805-2 May 16 1303 1324 24450 76250 208000 147705-3 May 16 1295 1324 23000 75775 203025 144105-4 May 16 1293 1324 23250 74750 203800 144005-5 May 16 1287 1324 23600 74775 203800 14350

4-29 June 16 1326 1371 24100 79625 215000 154605-2 June 16 1299 1355 23250 79025 210000 144705-3 June 16 1292 1330 23125 78025 204500 143605-4 June 16 1291 1330 23150 77800 207475 143505-5 June 16 1301 1330 23600 80500 207450 14400

4-29 July 16 1351 1412 24275 79275 216000 149005-2 July 16 1331 1389 23750 82000 213375 144205-3 July 16 1312 1366 23275 81700 208250 145905-4 July 16 1315 1371 23150 81625 210000 145505-5 July 16 1333 1386 23725 84125 208000 14660

4-29 August 16 1416 1460 24900 82450 218750 155305-2 August 16 1399 1448 24025 85675 215475 147205-3 August 16 1380 1410 23775 85025 211250 152705-4 August 16 1377 1422 23275 85650 213225 152005-5 August 16 1392 1460 24025 88500 211675 15290

4-29 September 16 1467 1492 25875 86550 219325 160005-2 September 16 1455 1488 24775 89675 216500 153705-3 September 16 1440 1457 24500 88400 213800 158705-4 September 16 1442 1457 24250 88600 214250 158505-5 September 16 1454 1437 26175 91575 213975 15920

4-29 October 16 1483 1513 26600 90025 219000 161205-2 October 16 1475 1507 25750 91650 216800 159405-3 October 16 1465 1474 25600 90850 213750 160105-4 October 16 1467 1474 25200 90850 214500 159705-5 October 16 1478 1473 26000 93750 214200 16030

4-29 November 16 1484 1507 27650 91800 214825 161105-2 November 16 1478 1507 26775 92700 214500 161005-3 November 16 1471 1476 26850 92000 212600 160205-4 November 16 1466 1494 26200 93075 213250 160105-5 November 16 1481 1487 26775 95050 213150 16100

4-29 December 16 1488 1508 28050 92625 210225 161305-2 December 16 1486 1508 27500 94000 209000 161005-3 December 16 1475 1501 27250 93025 206000 160805-4 December 16 1474 1494 26750 95550 207000 161605-5 December 16 1486 1494 27075 94975 206325 16130

4-29 January 17 1495 1440 28075 94650 203750 162005-2 January 17 1495 1440 28000 94650 203750 161105-3 January 17 1486 1440 28000 93025 203725 161905-4 January 17 1482 1440 28000 93075 201100 161605-5 January 17 1495 1440 28000 96400 201100 16200

4-29 February 17 1513 1460 28525 95425 203000 164405-2 February 17 1510 1460 28525 95425 203000 162505-3 February 17 1496 1460 28525 95425 202975 163205-4 February 17 1500 1467 28525 95500 200525 163205-5 February 17 1506 1467 28525 98800 200525 16330

4-29 March 17 1529 1480 28500 98250 202750 165405-2 March 17 1524 1480 28500 98250 202750 164405-3 March 17 1514 1480 28500 98250 201575 164505-4 March 17 1513 1480 28500 98250 200050 163605-5 March 17 1522 1480 28500 100200 200050 16470Interest - May 5 31813 2627 4456 5883 6058 31076

California 4a amp 4b Milk Prices - April 2016 with comparisons to April 2015 Minimum Prices per cwt

Class Lb Fat Lb SNF 2015 20164a $21859 $05619 $1336 $12544b $21859 $05812 $1422 $1271

Commodity Market Prices 2015 2016Cheese US 40-block CME $15785 $14380AA Butter CME $17737 $20336Nonfat Dry Milk (lowmed heat) West USDA $09582 $07382Dry Whey (Mostly) West USDA $04415 $02431

Class III 4b Milk Price Tracker 2016 vs 2015

$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180

M J J A S O N D J F M A

40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS

CHEESE REPORTERMay 6 2016 Page 15Page 15

DAIRY PRODUCT MARKETSAS REPORTED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

WHOLESALE CHEESE MARKETS

WEEKLY COLD STORAGE HOLDINGSSELECTED STORAGE CENTERS IN 1000 POUNDS - INCLUDING GOVERNMENT

DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3

NATIONAL - APRIL 29 Cheese vats across the country remain full in efforts to manage the plentiful milk supply Northeastern inventories are growing and interest is steady to fair in an unsettled market In the Midwest producers are seeing steady to moderate increases in orders Inventories are building and some manufacturers report prices that are reflecting the large supply of cheese available Demand is shifting as grilling season kicks off American and Cheddar varieties are seeing an increase in demand while pizza varieties may start seeing some decrease in sales Foodservice and retail demand in the West is good This is helping reduce some inventory pressure and allows cheese markers to rotate stocks and make room for growing inventories As stocks build storage availability is becoming a concern

NORTHEAST- MAY 4 There is a plentiful supply of milk throughout the Northeast this week keeping cheese producers very busy Many manufacturers report only minor issues moving cheese and are happy with current sales Even though cheese production continues to increase some processors report having comfortable inventory levels and show little to no concern about building stocks As the summer months are quickly approaching there is less interest in Mozzarella and processed cheese varieties while Cheddar and American type cheeses are seeing increases in sales

Wholesale prices delivered dollars perlbCheddar 40-lb blocks $17850 - $20700 Process 5-lb sliced $16025 - $20825Muenster $18050 - $21550 Swiss Cuts 10-14 lbs $29750 - $32975

MIDWEST AREA - MAY 4 Cheese vats throughout the Midwest are getting little to no rest as high volumes of milk intakes show little sign of slowing Cheese production is steady to increasing Last week the CME Group average cheese price for both blocks and barrels saw a decrease This change in price may be contributing to the increase in sales some manufacturers are reporting This movement of cheese seems to be giving some relief to the inventory pressure felt across the Central region A handful of cheese producers report being content with their current stock levels However other processors have seen a slowdown in the market and believe buyers are holding out to see if prices will continue to drop

Wholesale prices delivered dollars perlb Process 5 Loaf $14950 - $18550BrickMuens 5 Loaf $17550 - $21800 Cheddar 40 Block $14825 - $18775Monterey Jack 10 $17300 - $19350 Blue 5 Loaf $20225 - $30100Mozzarella 5-6 (LMPS) $15550 - $24950 Grade A Swiss 6-9 $24925 - $26100

WEST - MAY 4 Western cheese production continues to be active Milk is readily available and many cheese manufacturers are running full production schedules Late last week however a regional power outage disrupted milk flow and cheese production at a few southwestern dairy facilities Dairy processing resumed normal activities early this week Cheese inventories are long especially for commercial cheese In some cases available storage space is becoming harder to find However demand is steady Cheese both retail and commercial is moving at current market prices Industry contacts say buyers are content with commodity cheese prices close to CME Group bases

Wholesale prices delivered dollars perlb Process 5 Loaf $15100 - $17675Cheddar 40 Block $14875 - $19325 Cheddar 10 Cuts $16675 - $18875Monterey Jack 10 $16775 - $18375 Grade A Swiss 6-9 $25525 - $29825

FOREIGN -TYPE CHEESE - MAY 4 Demand for semi hard cheese in the EU has increased in recent weeks Higher domestic EU sales have drawn down inventories There has also been higher export activity Manufacturers have recently reduced cheese manufac-turing volumes and sent some milk to other manufacturing uses Stocks in aging programs are lower Cheese production in coming weeks is mostly spoken for All of this has stabilized prices with some prices for delivery in coming weeks showing signs of strengthening

Selling prices delivered dollars perlb Imported DomesticBlue $26400 - 52300 $19500 - 34375Gorgonzola $36900 - 57400 $24575 - 31750Parmesan (Italy) 0 $33400 - 54300Romano (Cows Milk) 0 $31400 - 52900Sardo Romano (Argentine) $28500 - 47800 0Reggianito (Argentine) $32900 - 47800 0Jarlsberg (Brand) $29500 - 64500 0Swiss Cuts Switzerland 0 $30125- 33350Swiss Cuts Finnish $26700- 29300 0

NDM - CENTRAL In the Central region lowmedium heat nonfat dry milk prices are unchanged to lower in an unsettled market Prices on various auction sites are mixed Manufacturers are trying to hold prices steady in the wake of the changes to various indices but interest from buyers is price sen-sitive Other market participants provided additional market views including the avail-ability of 1 year old-plus loads priced below the current low end of the range Plentiful milk intakes continue throughout the Central region Processors are handling volumes to maximize throughput and returns to invest-ment Class II end users report condensed skim loads are available at a discount to the market In some cases condensed skim loads are clearing through to disposal Over-all lowmedium heat production is active and inventories are building Overseas export demand is limited Sales into Mexico are intermittent Prices for Central high heat NDM moved higher on the bottom of the range as variable contract prices adjusted to index movement Most interest is contract driven Production at many facilities is lim-ited to end-of-day runs Inventories are light but sufficient to meet near-term obligations

NDM - EAST Lowmedium heat NDM milk prices are lower on the range but unchanged on the mostly series The mar-ket tone is unsettled Lowmedium heat processing continues to be strong in line

with the heavy milk production in the East Inventories are steady to higher in many pro-cessing plants According to some indus-try participants fob spot sales are light as most transactions are moving through contracts High heat NDM prices are mixed Sales outside contracts are sporadic Pro-duction is irregular based on filling near-term contractual obligations between parties Some buyers are having difficulties in find-ing supplies in the spot market Inventories are steady to lower

NDM - WEST Prices for lowmedium heat NDM are slightly lower The market undertone is unsettled at the present Trad-ing outside contracts has been light through-out the week Usage of lowmedium heat NDM for cheese fortification is active but is slow from the bakery sector A few pro-cessors are performing repairmaintenance projects on their dryers However NDM pro-duction has been only marginally affected In fact NDM processing is very active in the West Manufacturersrsquo stocks are steady to building Supplies are readily available in the fob spot market Prices for high heat non-fat dry milk are unchanged on light trading Drying schedules are sporadic in many man-ufacturing plants as processing is mostly driven by contractual needs Inventories are steady The CME monthly average price for Grade A NDM during April was $07306 compared to $09415 a year ago

ORGANIC DAIRY - RETAIL OVERVIEW

The total volume of conventional dairy ads increased 40 and organic dairy ads increased 11 this week For conventional dairy advertisements ice cream in 48- to 64-ounce contain-ers Greek yogurt in 4- to 6-ounce containers and 8-ounce packs of shred cheese had the largest volume of ads Ads for 1-pound packages of butter increased 57 with a weighted average price of $291 down $12 from last week The weighted average price for 1-pound packages of organic butter was $524 up $73 from a week ago Regular organic yogurt in 4- to 6-ounce containers had the largest percentage increase among reported dairy items an increase of 760 The US advertised price for 8-ounce conventional cheese blocks averaged $211 down $21 from last week 8-ounce shred cheese averaged $224 down $20 from last week Conventional two pound blocks saw a 130 increase in ads this week with a weighted average price of $595 The US advertised price for 8-ounce organic cheese blocks averaged $392 while 8-ounce shred cheese averaged $393 The price spread between organic and conventional half gallon milk is $240 Conventional milk ad numbers increased 48 from last week while organic milk ad numbers decreased 36

National Weighted Retail Avg Price Cheese 8 oz shred $393Cheese 8 oz block $392Cheese 1 lb shred NACottage Cheese 16 oz $331Butter 1 lb $524

Milk frac12 gal $392Milk gal $699 Greek Yogurt 4-6 oz $125Greek Yogurt 32 oz $179Yogurt 4-6 oz $101Yogurt 32 oz $299

RETAIL PRICES - CONVENTIONAL DAIRY - MAY 6Commodity

Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz

Flavored Milk frac12 gallon

Flavored Milk gallon

Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz

Yogurt (Greek) 32 oz

Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz

US NE SE MID SC SW NW

291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186

Cottage Cheese 191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339

Flavored Milk gallon 310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50

US National Northeast (NE) CT DE MA MD ME NH NJ NY PA RI VTSoutheast (SE) AL FL GA MD NC SC TN VA WV Midwest (MID) IA IL IN KY MI MN ND NE OH SD WI South Central (SC) AK CO KS LA MO NM OK TX Southwest (SW) AZ CA NV UT Northwest (NW) ID MT OR WA WY

NATIONAL - CONENTIONAL DAIRY PRODUCTS

DRY DAIRY PRODUCTS - MAY 5

NATIONAL - APRIL 29 Butter pro-cessing is ongoing in the country as heavy cream volumes continue clearing into churns Inventories are steady to building Some industry participants are puzzled with the recent upward price trends at the CME as supplies are readily available in the market In the East demand for spe-cialty butter is good Requests from retail-ers are strong ahead of summer In the Central region bulk butter orders from educational institutions and foodservice are steady Interest for print butter from retailers is trailing lower In the West print butter demands from grocery stores and the private label sector is steady

NORTHEAST - MAY 4 Butter pro-cessing is strong in the Northeast as heavy cream volumes continue clearing into churns Many processors are focusing production on bulk butter Manufacturersrsquo stocks are generally steady to building However there are not enough supplies available in the spot market at the present Print butter production is active in some plants Demands from retailers and food service are strong ahead of the summer and fall seasons Retail commitments toward Q3 and Q4 are active

CENTRAL - MAY 4 Some recent features at consumer outlets offering bun-dled pricing on one pound packages have helped clear retailer inventories brought in prior to the spring holidays Butter produc-tion is steady to lower as additional cream volumes clear to Class II production Butter stocks are building steadily although most manufactures are holding those stocks with confidence Central butter demand is generally unchanged from year ago pat-terns according to butter manufacturers Foodservice interest is steady

WEST - MAY 4 Western butter manu-facturers are able to get plenty of cream to meet their current processing needs However a bit more cream is starting to move into Class II channels and taking a little of the pressure off the churns Butter production is still active with most churn-ing directed toward bulk butter production Butter makers are also making some print butter to meet immediate retail needs and requests for co-packed butter Manufactur-ers say butter production and sales are good for this time of year Inventories con-tinue to build seasonally The US weighted average advertised price of 1-pound butter is $303 down $28 from last week

WHOLESALE BUTTER MARKETS


CME CASH PRICES - MAY 2 - MAY 6 2016Visit wwwcheesereportercom for daily prices

CHEDDAR CHEDDAR AA GRADE A 500-LB BARRELS 40-LB BLOCKS BUTTER NFDM

MONDAY $14000 $13600 $20600 $07475 May 2 (-1frac14) (-1) (-6) (-frac34)

TUESDAY $13700 $13400 $20250 $07500 May 3 (-3) (-2) (-3frac12) (+frac14)

WEDNESDAY $13525 $13250 $20300 $07550 May 4 (-1frac34) (-1frac12) (+frac12) (+frac12)

THURSDAY $13150 $13050 $20500 $07750 May 5 (-3frac12) (-2) (+2) (+2)

FRIDAY $13000 $13050 $20500 $07775 May 6 (-1frac12) (NC) (NC) (+frac14)

Weekrsquos AVG $13475 $13270 $20430 $07610 Change (-00550) (-00530) (-00150) (-00070)

Last Weekrsquos $14025 $13800 $20580 $07680AVG

2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

MARKET OPINION - CHEESE REPORTERCheese Comment Mondayrsquos block market activity was limited to uncovered offers of 2 cars at $13600 which reduced the price Three cars of blocks were sold Tues-day all on offers the last at $13400 which set the price On Wednesday 1 car of blocks was sold on an offer at $13250 which reduced the price Four cars of blocks were sold Thursday all on offers last sale was 1 car at $13050 which lowered the price On Friday 1 car of blocks was sold on an offer at $13050 which left the price unchanged The barrel price fell Monday on an offer-based sale of 1 car at $14000 dropped Tuesday on an offer-based sale of 1 car at $13700 fell Wednesday on an offer-based sale of 1 car at $13525 declined Thursday on an uncovered offer of 1 car at $13150 and fell Friday on an uncovered offer of 1 car at $13000

Butter The price declined Monday on a bid-based sale of 1 car at $20600 fell Tues-day on a bid-based sale of 1 car at $20250 rose Wednesday on an unfilled bid for 1 car at $20300 and increased Thursday on an offer-based sale of 1 car at $20500

NDM Comment The price fell Monday on an offer-based sale of 1 car at 7475 cents rose Tuesday on offer-based sales of 3 cars at 750 cents increased Wednes-day on an unfilled bid for 1 car at 755 cents rose Thursday on a bid-based sale

HISTORICAL MILK PRICES - CLASS III Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

lsquo03 978 966 911 973 971 975 1178 1380 1430 1439 1347 1187lsquo04 1161 1189 1449 1966 2058 1768 1485 1404 1472 1416 1489 1614lsquo05 1414 1470 1408 1461 1377 1392 1435 1360 1430 1435 1335 1337lsquo06 1339 1220 1111 1093 1083 1129 1092 1106 1229 1232 1284 1347lsquo07 1356 1418 1509 1609 1760 2017 2138 1983 2007 1870 1922 2060lsquo08 1932 1703 1800 1676 1818 2025 1824 1732 1682 1706 1551 1528lsquo09 1078 931 1044 1078 984 997 997 1120 1211 1282 1408 1498lsquo10 1450 1428 1278 1292 1338 1362 1374 1518 1626 1694 1544 1383lsquo11 1348 1700 1940 1687 1652 1911 2139 2167 1907 1803 1907 1877lsquo12 1705 1606 1572 1572 1523 1563 1668 1773 1900 2102 2083 1866lsquo13 1814 1725 1693 1759 1852 1802 1738 1791 1814 1822 1883 1895lsquo14 2115 2335 2333 2431 2257 2136 2160 2225 2460 2382 2194 1782lsquo15 1618 1546 1556 1581 1619 1672 1633 1627 1582 1546 1530 1444 lsquo16 1372 1380 1374 1363

WHEY MARKETS - MAY 2 - MAY 6 2016RELEASE DATE - MAY 5 2016

Animal Feed WheymdashCentral Milk Replacer 1250(NC) ndash 2150 (NC)

Buttermilk Powder Central amp East 7000 (NC) ndash 8000 (-frac12) West 6700 (NC) ndash 7550 (-7frac12) Mostly 6900 (NC) ndash 7400 (NC)

Casein Rennet $23500(+10) ndash $27500(+5) Acid $25000 (+10) - $28500 (+10)

Dry Whey PowdermdashCentral (Edible) Nonhygroscopic 2000 (+2) ndash 2750 (NC) Mostly 2100 (NC) ndash 2550 (NC)

Dry WheyndashWest (Edible) Nonhygroscopic 2100 (-1) ndash 2800 (+frac12) Mostly 2125 (-1) ndash 2550 (+frac12) Dry WheymdashNE 1700 (-5) mdash 2750 (NC)

LactosemdashCentral and West Edible 2000 (NC) ndash3550(NC) Mostly 2100 (NC) ndash 2950 (NC) Nonfat Dry Milk mdashCentral amp East LowMedium Heat 7100 (-frac12) ndash 8175 (-frac34) Mostly 7500(NC) ndash 7800 (NC) High Heat 8800 (+1) - 9700(NC) Nonfat Dry Milk mdashWestern LowMedium Heat 6925 (-1frac14) ndash 7850 (-frac12) Mostly 7375 (-frac12) ndash7700 (-frac12) High Heat 8200 (NC) ndash 9500 (NC)

California Weighted Average NFDM Price Total Sales April 29 $07144 20375111 April 22 $07349 10528568

Whey Protein ConcentratemdashCentral and West Edible 34 Protein 5600 (NC) ndash 7300 (NC) Mostly 5650 (NC) ndash 6500 (NC)

Whole MilkmdashNational 10800 (-2) ndash 13000 (-3)

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Schumer Asks USTR USDA To Ensure That Canada Doesnrsquot Erect New Barriers To Imports Of US Dairy IngredientsHudson Falls NYmdashUS Sen Charles E Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday called on the heads of the Office of the US Trade Repre-sentative (USTR) and US Depart-ment of Agriculture (USDA) to hold Canada to its trade commit-ments and ensure that US dairy exporters ldquodo not encounter barri-ers to the products they are already shipping to Canadardquo

Sen Schumer made his com-ments in a letter to USTR Michael Froman and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and also in an appearance at Ideal Dairy Farm in Hudson Falls

In his letter Schumer expressed ldquostrong concernsrdquo about reports that Canada is weighing changes that would undermine one of New Yorkrsquos key export markets

ldquoJust a few years ago two dairy companies made investments worth tens of millions of dollars in Upstate New York to produce ultra-filtered milk specifically for export to the Canadian cheese marketrdquo Schumer wrote ldquoThese sales are possible as a result of the duty-free access for this specific product that Canada agreed to

under the North American Free Trade Agreementrdquo

Recent reports indicate that Canada is considering adminis-trative actions to limit Canadian companiesrsquo capacity to use this product in further processing and that Ontario is advancing a new targeted pricing policy ldquodesigned to crowd out New Yorkrsquos dairy salesrdquo the letter continued

Wally Smith president of Dairy Farmers of Canada said diafiltered milk is currently being imported into Canada as an ldquoingredientrdquo allowing it to enter into Canada tariff-free Under Canadarsquos cheese compositional standards a mini-mum percentage of the protein sed in cheesemaking must be sourced from milk

Some Canadian cheese makers are using milk protein substances such as diafiltered milk as part of their required minimum percent-age of ldquomilkrdquo when making cheese instead of using it as part of their allowable percentage of ldquoingredi-entsrdquo Smith said

ldquoDiafiltered milk cannot be an lsquoingredientrsquo when it crosses the border and lsquomilkrsquo when it comes to making cheeserdquo Smith said ldquoDairy farmers need the government to act urgently to enforce the exist-ing compositional standards for cheese which is a domestic issue and impacts Canadarsquos sovereign right to implement our own food policy and regulationsrdquo


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Greenwood WI 54437

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FDArsquos proposed menu labeling rule ran a total of 46 pages in the Federal Register the final rule more than dou-bled that running 105 pages

Past Issues Read this weekrsquos issue or past issues of Cheese Reporter on your mobile phone or tablet by scanning this QR code

Consequences Of Some Laws Are Felt For Many Years

D I C K G R O V E S

Publisher EditorCheese Reportere dgrovescheesereportercomtw cheesereporter

EDITORIAL COMMENT

Laws have consequences Some-times these consequences are known pretty quickly such as in the case of a new farm bill and sometimes it takes years before the consequences of some laws are fully understood

We are reminded of this point from time to time in the heavily regulated dairy industry And wersquore not even going to mention (except for right now) the Food Safety Modernization Act the imple-mentation of which has dragged on through proposed rules supple-mental proposed rules extended comment periods at least one lawsuit final rules meetings webi-nars staggered compliance dates and more

Two recent examples have helped to make this point and also to illustrate just how long the regu-latory process can drag on after leg-islation is passed by Congress and signed into law by the President

Back in 2010 Congress passed the highly controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act more commonly known just as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare Buried in that law (which has a total of 10 titles or two less than the 2014 farm bill) in Section 4205 (Title IV is ldquoPre-vention of Chronic Diseases and Improving Public Healthrdquo) is a requirement for nutrition labeling of standard menu items at chain restaurants

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law back on March 23 2010 and last Fri-day more than six years after the ACA became law the US Food and Drug Administration issued final guidance on the menu label-ing section of the ACA

The menu labeling regulation has had a rather lengthy history FDA initially published a proposed rule on menu labeling back in April of 2011 More than three and one-half years later on December 1 2014 the agency published a final menu labeling rule

FDA received about 900 com-ments on its proposed menu label-

ing rule The final rule includes the agencyrsquos responses to many of these comments

A couple of numbers can help put the complexity of this pro-cess into perspective First FDArsquos proposed menu labeling rule ran a total of 46 pages in the Federal Register the final rule more than doubled that running 105 pages

Second the main reason the final rule ran so long was because FDA responded to numerous com-ments in that final rule Specifi-cally FDArsquos final rule included the agencyrsquos responses to a total of 155 comments that were submitted in response to the proposed rule

But that wasnrsquot the end of it FDA last Friday published its final industry menu labeling guid-ance the draft guidance had been released last September That final guidance runs some 58 pages

The agency said it will begin enforcing the menu labeling rule one year after a ldquoNotice of Avail-abilityrdquo for the final guidance is published Thatrsquos some seven years and a few weeks after Obama signed the ACA into law

Also back in 2010 Congress passed something called the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 That law was (at least compared to the ACA) relatively short it only had four titles and ran all of 84 pages in its final form

But the dairy industry is still dealing with regulations stem-ming from the HHFKA Just last week (as reported on our front page last week) USDArsquos Food and Nutrition Service published a final rule that updates the meal pattern requirements for the Child and Adult Care Food Program as required by the HHFKA

USDA had published a proposed rule on the CACFP back in Janu-ary of 2015 The agency received a whopping total of 7755 com-ments on that proposal of which 6508 were copies of form letters related to 32 different mass mail campaigns Those comments aside USDA received over 1200 unique submissions

And the final rule included USDArsquos response to a number of those comments Indeed USDArsquos final rule runs some 37 pages in the Federal Register and over a dozen of those pages are devoted to comments on various aspects of the proposed rule and USDArsquos response to those comments And none of USDArsquos proposals were without controversy (as least as indicated by comments)

For example USDArsquos proposal would have eliminated the option to serve cheese cottage cheese or cheese food or spread to infants and would have continued to prohibit serving yogurt to infants Several entities expressed support for this proposal but a larger portion of commenters voiced opposition to restricting cowrsquos milk products for older infants

USDArsquos final rule modified the proposed rule to allow cheese cot-tage cheese and yogurt as allow-able meat alternates for infants six through 11 months of age but the final rule still does not allow the service of cheese foods or cheese spreads under the infant meal pat-tern

The HHFKA is further compli-cated because it requires USDA to update the meal pattern require-ments for the CACFP to better align them with the Dietary Guide-lines for Americans The HHFKA was signed into law back in 2010 The 2010 update to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans wasnrsquot released until January of 2011 and then the 2015 update was released in early January of this year

Laws like the ACA and the HHFKA require federal agencies to promulgate numerous regula-tions that have various impacts on the dairy and food industries And laws sometimes obligate the agen-cies to use other government edicts in their regulations

Bottom line what happens in Washington these days can and will have a future impact on dairy businesses Watch Congress now and find out what to beware of in say the year 2022















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Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

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$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

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DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

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Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

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DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















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Nonfat Dry Milk


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$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

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$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

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Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

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Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















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Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















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3 Cheesecloth


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5 Real Estate



















7 Help Wanted





14 Testing Services






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Title _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















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Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

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COMPANY NEWS

PEOPLE

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PLANNING GUIDE





























rvin

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eekly

Since 1876










2 Equipment Wanted


3 Cheesecloth


4 Walls Flooring



5 Real Estate



















7 Help Wanted





14 Testing Services






Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Title _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Company _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Address _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Issue Date 50616

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128








Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



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Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg













COMPANY NEWS

PEOPLE

C

M

Y

CM

MY

CY

CMY

K











PLANNING GUIDE





























rvin

gth


eekly

Since 1876










2 Equipment Wanted


3 Cheesecloth


4 Walls Flooring



5 Real Estate



















7 Help Wanted





14 Testing Services






Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Title _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Company _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Address _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

CityStZip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

E-Mail _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _




Issue Date 50616

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128








Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



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regreg




Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg













rvin

gth


eekly

Since 1876










2 Equipment Wanted


3 Cheesecloth


4 Walls Flooring



5 Real Estate



















7 Help Wanted





14 Testing Services






Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Title _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Company _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Address _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

CityStZip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

E-Mail _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _




Issue Date 50616

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128








Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



wwwurschelcom



regreg




Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg













Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Title _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Company _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Address _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

CityStZip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

E-Mail _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _




Issue Date 50616

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128








Butter


Dry Whey Prices


Nonfat Dry Milk


DAIRY PRODUCT SALES





























$1100

$1200

$1300

$1400

$1500

$1600

$1700


Class III4b

$130$135$140$145$150$155$160$165$170$175$180


40-Pound Block Avg

CME vs AMS





DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



wwwurschelcom



regreg




Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg















DATE BUTTER CHEESE

50216 28245 9517050116 28011 95173Change 234 -3



















Butter 1

Cheese 8 oz block

Cheese 1 block

Cheese 2 block

Cheese 8 oz shred

Cheese 1 shred

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ice Cream 48-64 oz



Milk frac12 gallon

Milk gallon

Sour Cream 16 oz



Yogurt 4-6 oz

Yogurt 32 oz


291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

211 215 219 187 202 252 99

306 335 249 249 291 369 421

595 699 NA NA 619 556 548

224 238 233 200 208 237 186

286 299 249 249 249 336 414

191 197 159 163 269 215 NA

196 192 179 191 200 214 208

297 272 285 271 339 325 339

211 282 179 169 NA NA NA

310 399 199 179 189 NA NA

152 177 131 88 NA NA NA

228 250 296 188 237 218 179

175 163 165 145 214 207 167

93 90 98 93 93 94 100

429 399 NA NA NA 443 NA

47 47 48 47 43 47 50

257 299 218 NA 250 299 200

Butter 1 291 312 253 282 265 NA 286

Cheese 1 block 306 335 249 249 291 369 421

Cheese 8 oz shred 224 238 233 200 208 237 186


Ice Cream 48-64 oz 297 272 285 271 339 325 339


Milk gallon 228 250 296 188 237 218 179

Yogurt (Greek) 4-6 oz 93 90 98 93 93 94 100

Yogurt 4-6 oz 47 47 48 47 43 47 50



















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



wwwurschelcom



regreg




Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg





















2015 AVG $16280 $16150 $18910 $09510 Same Week

















delivering targeted

cutting solutions



wwwurschelcom



regreg




Fine Shreds

OVAL

WIDE OVAL

GRANULATION

STRIP CUT

CRESCENT

WIDE CRESCENT

FULL SHRED

REDUCED V-SHRED

FLAT-Vreg

REDUCED FLAT-Vreg











Documents

Since 1876 W S l y CHEESE REPORTER Issues/2016/May 6, 2016.pdfProposal For Cash Market For Sweet Dry Whey Powder Submitted To CME Group Vol. 140, No. 46 • Friday, May 6, 2016 •