A regular new feature we will be bringing you here on World Dairy Diary is a weekly price recap from our friends at Dairyline. Hopefully you’ve heard them on the air over your local radio station. You can also listen to their reports on their website. To give you a peek at what we’ll bring you each Friday, here’s last week’s report:
Dairy Markets Week in Review
Cash traded block cheese closed the month of April at $1.16 per pound, unchanged on the week, but 28 1/2-cents below a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.1325, also unchanged on the week, but 25 1/4 cents below a year ago. Four cars of block were traded and none of barrel. The NASS U.S. average block price slipped to $1.1477, down 2.1 cents. Barrel averaged $1.1366, down 0.9 cent.
Butter climbed to $1.20 on Tuesday but relapsed on Thursday and closed Friday at $1.18, up a penny on the week, but 21 3/4 cents below a year ago. Only one car was sold all week. NASS butter averaged $1.1394, up 0.1 cent.