Industry News
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What the relief payment won't cover
A federal relief payment for dairy producers opens for applications later this month. Here's what it covers, what it doesn't, and why the number on the check won't…
Read postThe boxes headed somewhere other than a restaurant
A new federal food-box purchase program is about to pull cheese out of cold storage and into food banks. Members want to know if it will actually move…
Read postA strange bottom to the cheese market
Six weeks into the food-service shutdown, wholesale cheese prices are showing the first signs of steadying. We look at what's holding the case together and what isn't.
Read postTwo cheese cases pulling apart
Farm milk prices fell to levels most members have never priced against, even as cheese piled up in coolers with nowhere to go. Here's why both things are…
Read postA fuller case, a fuller tank
Grocery cheese cases are busier than they've been in months, and farm bulk tanks are fuller than anyone wants. Both are true at once, and members are caught…
Read postThe case with nowhere to go
Restaurant and school closures have cut off a huge share of dairy demand overnight, and members are asking what to do with cheese that was built for a…
Read postThe wholesale floor just moved
Wholesale cheese and milk futures have dropped hard in the last month as foodservice demand collapses. Here is what members told us they're doing about it this week.
Read postA cheese case that can't agree with itself
Retail cheese sales are running hot while restaurant orders vanish overnight, and the futures board can't decide which number to believe.
Read postA futures board that can't agree with itself
Dairy futures swung hard again this morning, and members are asking what a market this jumpy actually means for a spring pricing decision.
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