Milk futures and the cash dairy markets were lower except for whey and butter Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
September Class III milk was down $0.11 at $18.39. October was down $0.11 at $17.75. November was down $0.07 at $17.89. December was down $0.10 at $18.23. January through July contracts ranged from unchanged in May to thirteen cents lower in February.
Dry whey was up $0.0050 at $0.26. No sales were recorded.
Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.0575 at $1.89.
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