April 27, 2022: Dairy Week In Review

According to the latest USDA Cold Storage report, natural cheese stocks were down 0.7 percent from a year ago to 1.458 billion pounds in March, down 0.6 percent from February, marking the  first time since 2011 that stocks fell from February to March. Still, this was the second largest March inventory ever reported. American cheese stocks were down 1.1 percent from February and 1.5  percent below March 2021. Other cheese stocks were up 0.1 percent to 613 million pounds. Butter stocks were up 20 million from February to 283 million pounds, growing faster than the five-year average February-to-March increase of 9.5 million. Still, butter stocks were down 21 percent from a year ago. Read More