At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday dairy markets were mostly down. December Class III milk futures finished down $.06 at $15.44. January milk was down $.12 at $13.93. February was down $.20 at $13.64. March was down $.20 closing at $13.78. The rest of the 2018 milk futures were all down.
Grade AA Butter was up $.01 closing at $2.21. Nine carloads of butter were sold ranging from $2:19 to $2.21. Barrels were down $.10 closing at $1.48. Seventeen carloads of barrels traded between $1.48 and $1.5550. 40-pound blocks fell $.04 to $1.45. One carload of blocks sold at $1.45. Nonfat dry milk fell again, closing down $.0025 at $.6475. Two carloads were sold with one going for $.65 and the other at $.6450.
