Dairy Markets Week in Review Cash butter sales returned to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on March 24. It was the first sale since February 29, even though the price had crept up to $1.3975 per pound on unfilled bids. The next day the price dropped almost 4 cents, the first decline since February 21. It closed Friday at $1.36, down … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash cheese market started the Easter holiday shortened week on a continued decline from the previous week but reversed gears Tuesday. The block price closed Thursday at $1.80 per pound, down just a penny on the week but 40 cents above a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.7750, up 3 1/2-cents on the week, … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Weakness continued in the cash cheese market the second week of March. Block cheese ended the week at $1.81 per pound, down 5 1/2-cents, but 45 3/4-cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed Friday at $1.74, down 12 3/4-cents on the week, but 38 1/4-cents above a year ago. Seventeen cars of block … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review I never was a fan of roller coasters and I know dairy farmers aren’t enjoying the up and down ride the cheese market is taking them on. The first Monday in March started on the down side, with blocks dropping a dime to $1.97 per pound, and it only took one offer to do it. … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Roller coaster cheese prices remain the center of attention. Trading the last week of February saw blocks hit $2.09 per pound before plunging to $1.99 on Thursday, but rebounded some Friday and closed at $2.07, down just a quarter-cent on the week but 72 1/2-cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.97, … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Recapping the markets, forty-pound block cheese picked up 2 1/4-cents on the shortened holiday week, closing at $2.0725 per pound, and 70 1/4-cents above a year ago. Five hundred pound barrel closed Friday at $2.02, up 3 cents on the week, and 67 cents above a year ago. Two cars of block traded hands on … Read More
Helping Keep Technology Alternatives on the Farm
At this year’s World Ag Expo Dairyline’s Bill Baker interviewed Liz Dornick and Carol Campbell, dairy producers who were at one of the Dairy Profit Seminars. They talked about AFACT, American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology. Liz is in Wisconsin and Carol is from Kansas. They’re both frustrated with the misinformation that consumers find on labels and … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash cheese market this week seemed to ignore the anticipated Friday afternoon January Milk Production report and added to the 34-cent gain of the previous two weeks. Blocks topped $2.00 again, skyrocketing to $2.1150 on Thursday, but closed at $2.05, with Friday’s trading holding at $2.05 per pound, up 6 cents on the week … Read More
What CWT is Doing at World Ag Expo
Out at the World Ag Expo, Bill Baker, Dairyline, is hard at work. Bill has been supplying us with a weekly dairy markets wrapup. He sent along an interview with Jim Tillison, National Milk Producers Federation, about their Cooperatives Working Together program. Jim’s in the picture second from the left. Jim says that dairy producers are wondering if CWT has … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cash cheese prices keep defying expectations and fundamentals. Blocks closed Friday just shy of the $2.00 mark, at $1.99 per pound, up 19 cents on the week, following the previous week’s 15-cent gain. It’s also 64 1/2-cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.9375, up 15 3/4-cents on the week, and 61 … Read More