The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its May 2011 Highlights (ISSN: 1949-0399).
Total cheese output (excluding cottage cheese) was 915 million pounds, 3.9 percent above May 2010 and 3.8 percent above April 2011.
- Italian type cheese production totaled 394 million pounds, 6.6 percent above May 2010 and 2.2 percent above April 2011.
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American type cheese production totaled 371 million pounds, 0.1 percent below May 2010 but 3.9 percent above April 2011.
Butter production was 156 million pounds, 18.3 percent above May 2010 but 1.8 percent below April 2011.
Dry milk powders (comparisons with May 2010)
- Nonfat dry milk, human - 148 million pounds, down 4.6 percent.
- Skim milk powders - 35.7 million pounds, up 108.0 percent.
- Whey products (comparisons with May 2010)
- Dry whey, total - 91.5 million pounds, up 2.6 percent.
- Lactose, human and animal - 86.0 million pounds, up 13.4 percent.
- Whey protein concentrate, total - 36.6 million pounds, down 0.5 percent.
Frozen products (comparisons with May 2010)
- Ice cream, regular (hard) - 75.1 million gallons, down 5.7 percent.
- Ice cream, lowfat (total) - 38.6 million gallons, up 9.8 percent.
- Sherbet (hard) - 4.29 million gallons, down 4.5 percent.
- Frozen yogurt (total) - 4.33 million gallons, down 11.0 percent.
