In September, the USDA reported a broadly mixed month for US dairy product output.
The overall cheese volume of 1.15 billion pounds was up 0.1% month on month but down 0.3% year on year, with advances in American and Hispanic cheeses wiping out losses in Italian cheeses.
In preparation for the holidays, butter output reached 145 million pounds, a 3% rise over the previous month and last year.
Dry milk product output was considerably lower, while whey product production was firm to higher, and frozen product production was lower than a year before.
The USDA will release its next set of dairy supply and demand estimates on November 9th.
