Dairy Markets Week in Review
Cash block cheese continues to creep toward the $2 mark again but stopped short at $1.94, down 1 1/2-cents on the week but four cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.9525, up two cents on the week and 10 1/4-cents above a year ago. Eight Cars of block traded hands on the week and none of barrel. The NASS-surveyed U.S. average block price hit $1.7686, up 5.1 cents. Barrel averaged $1.7702, up 6.1 cents.
Cash butter closed Friday at $1.7475, up 2 1/4-cents on the week and 43 1/4-cents above a year ago. Three Cars were sold. NASS butter averaged $1.6391, up 2.5 cents.
Cash Grade A and Extra Grade nonfat dry milk closed Friday at $1.10, down three cents on the week. NASS nonfat dry milk averaged $1.1597, down 5.4 cents, and dry whey averaged 21.54 cents, down 0.6 cent
Provided courtesy of Dairyline.