US Dairy Products Statistics

US - The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) comment on the dairy product production such as cheese, butter etc. in their monthly Dairy Products Report.
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National Agricultural Statistics Service

December 2006 Highlights

Total cheese output (excluding cottage cheese) was 829 million pounds, 3.8 percent above December 2005 and 4.8 percent above November 2006.

Italian type cheese production totaled 352 million pounds, 4.7 percent above December 2005 and 7.8 percent above November 2006.

American type cheese production totaled 340 million pounds, 3.0 percent above December 2005 and 8.0 percent above November 2006.

Butter production was 138 million pounds, 9.5 percent above December 2005 and 17.3 percent above November 2006. Frozen dessert: (comparisons with December 2005)

  • Ice cream, Regular (hard) --- 49.4 million gallons, down 10.0 percent.
  • Ice cream, Lowfat (total) --- 23.1 million gallons, up 6.2 percent.
  • Sherbet (hard) --- 2.94 million gallons, down 14.3 percent.
  • Frozen Yogurt (total) --- 3.80 million gallons, down 14.7 percent.
Nonfat dry milk for human food: (compared with December 2005) --- 115 million pounds, up 10.6 percent.

Dry whey products: (comparisons with December 2005)
  • Dry whey, human --- 86.9 million pounds, up 8.3 percent.
  • Dry whey, animal --- 3.87 million pounds, down 35.0 percent.
  • Dry whey, total --- 90.7 million pounds, up 5.3 percent.

Total Cheese Production

United States

Total Butter Production

United States



Further Information

To view the full report including tables please click here. (PDF)

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