At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dairy markets continued to fall as the new week of trade began. December Class III milk futures finished unchanged at $15.50. January milk was down $.35 closing at $14.05. February was down $.38 at $13.84. March was down $.34 closing at $13.98. The rest of the 2018 milk futures were all down or unchanged.
Grade AA Butter was down $.045 Monday closing at $2.20. Six carloads of butter were sold ranging from $2.1925 to $2.2275. The spread between barrels and blocks remains wide, but both went down Monday. Barrels were down $.08 closing at $1.58. Eleven carloads of barrels traded between $1.5875 and $1.63.
