The USDA says cheese and butter production started to pick up steam in March while other products remained mostly slumped. Total cheese production was more than 1.2 billion pounds, up 1.4 percent from last year and nearly 10 percent from the prior month. Italian cheese production was up incrementally on the year and more than […]
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