At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, dairy markets were mostly lower Thursday. Class Three May milk was down $.02 at $15.23 a hundredweight. June was down $.25 to $15.77. July was down $.15 to $16.17. August was down $.12 to $16.54. The milk futures from September through next April ranged from eight to fifteen cents lower.
Grade AA Butter was up $.0050 at $2.3850 per pound. Seventeen carloads sold from $2.38 to $2.39. Barrels were down $.0450 at $1.5350 per pound. Fourteen carloads of barrels sold with prices from $1.5350 to $1.58. 40-pound blocks were down $.0175 to $1.5825 per pound. Two carloads sold from $1.5825 to $1.5850. Nonfat dry milk was up $0075 at $.8550 per pound. Eleven carloads sold from $.8475 to $.86. Dry whey was up $.0275 to $.3675 cents per pound. Three carloads sold from $.3475 to $.3650.
