On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, milk futures and cash dairy markets were up on Thursday, with the exception of cheese and nonfat dry milk.
September Class III milk was $0.02 higher at $18.89 a gallon. October saw a $0.15 increase to $19.10. November was $0.24 higher at $18.78. December was $0.13 higher at $18.65. Contracts from January to July were six cents higher in February and thirteen cents higher in July.
Dry whey was $0.02 higher at $0.3050. One transaction was recorded at $0.30.
The price of forty-pound cheese bricks remained constant at $1.9925. There were no sales registered.
The price of cheese barrels stayed steady at $1.86. There were no sales registered.
Butter was trading at $2.6450, up $0.0250. Fourteen transactions were made, with prices ranging from $2.6450 to $2.67.
Nonfat dried milk fell $0.02 to $1.0725. There were four transactions, with prices ranging from $1.07 to $1.0850.
