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Article: CHEESE MILK PRICE GAINS.(BUSINESS)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 2003
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Byline: John Oncken
It wasn't entirely a surprise with cheddar cheese prices rising in recent weeks, but the USDA's Aug. 1 confirmation of a big increase in the cheese milk price in July brought cheers across Wisconsin.
The July gain of $2.03 per hundredweight in the basic cheese milk price to $11.78 was just the fourth month in the 42 years such prices have been recorded that the monthly price has increased more than $2.
The others were June 1998, with a $2.22 increase; July 1999, $2.17; and August 1999, $2.20.
The $11.78 is the highest basic milk price producers have been paid since the $11.87 of January ...