Items Tagged with 'cheese demand'

Milk available for cheese making is tightening seasonally across much of the country. Limited spot milk loads for cheese production are available at premiums above Class. Cheese plants that want to run at highest efficiencies are looking for milk or additional solids to bolster production.

The USDA's Dairy Market News reports that that Process cheese sales are “strong” while Natural cheese sales are “off a little” in the Midwest. Overall, most manufacturers are “comfortable” with the current cheesemaking situation. 

Organic dairy advertising volume set a number of records; ice cream and cream cheese manufacturing account for the strongest demand on national cream supplies; and cheese production was reported slower as reduced volumes of milk were available for manufacturing, according to the USDA's Dairy Market News.