Dairy Markets Week in Review Anticipating the December Milk Production report Friday afternoon, cash cheese prices continued to weaken the week of January 14. The block price closed Friday morning at $1.65 per pound, down 20 cents on the week (it lost 30 1/4-cents the previous week), 36 1/4-cents above a year ago, but the lowest block price since May. … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The crash you heard January 7th was a 40-pound block of cheese at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We have seen several large single-day drops in the past two to three months only to see it rally a few days later. This time it was a 15 1/4-cent plunge and, while it regained almost a nickel … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cash cheese prices began 2008 with a 12 1/4-cent jump in block, which closed the New Year’s holiday shortened week at $2.1525 per pound, 81 1/4-cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $2.09, up 11 cents on the week and 74 1/2-cents above a year ago. Four cars of barrel was all … Read More
Drink Contains Half of Calcium Requirement
Dr. Jon Dickinson, an orthopedic surgeon from California, has been concerned about the calcium intake of Americans for several years. So, he decided to take action and has formulated a high-calcium beverage called Osteo. The drink includes 500 milligrams of soluble calcium in each 12-ounce bottle – about half of the minimum daily requirement. The concept was to create a … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash cheese market ended 2007 on a positive note and staged a last minute rally, with prices topping $2.00 a pound for the fourth time this year. Block closed Friday December 28, at $2.03, up 8 cents on the three-day holiday-shortened week, and 70 cents above a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.98, also … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Checking the price front; cheese continues to confound. After losing 26 1/4-cents the previous week, the block price fell another 12 1/2-cents this week to $1.8050, and surprise surprise; reversed gears Friday and shot back up to $1.95 per pound, up 2 cents on the week and 62 1/2-cents above that week a year ago. … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cheese price roller coaster headed down again. The block price lost 4 cents on Monday December 10, 12 1/4 cents on Tuesday, and closed Friday at $1.93 per pound, down 26 1/4-cents on the week but still 61 cents above a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.9975, down 16 1/4-cents on the week but … Read More
Grass Point Launches Midwest Distribution
Grass Point Farms, a brand of Organic Farm Marketing, Inc is excited to announce the launch of their full product line through out the Midwest starting on January 1st. The company, headquartered in Thorp, Wisconsin, has a membership base that is exclusively family farms, where the family provides more than 50 percent of the farm labor. Grass Point Farms, the … Read More
Texas Industry Growing
The dairy industry in Texas has grown by leaps and bounds in the last six years. The dairy cow population has ballooned from 20,000 to 140,000 in the Texas Panhandle, and the number of dairies has more than tripled in that same time period. And more cows are on the way. Officials predict the region’s dairy herd will increase by … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Just when you think cheese prices are down for the count, along comes another rally. Such was the case the first week of December. Block cheese regained almost 9 cents on Monday, after plunging 19 cents the previous week. It closed Friday at $2.1925 per pound, up 18 1/4-cents on the week and 87 1/4-cents … Read More