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Article: California Reports Record Cheese Production in 2001; State On Track To Become Leading Cheese Producer By Mid-Decade.
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- February 19, 2002
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MODESTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002
California's cheese industry showed dramatic growth in 2001. Preliminary estimates from the California Department of Food and Agriculture report that California's production of natural cheese reached a record 1.643 billion pounds in 2001, a 9.8 percent increase over the previous year.
The increase was even more impressive coming on the news that total U.S cheese production decreased by 1.2 percent to 8.155 billion pounds in 2001, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. It was the first such decline in U.S. cheese production since 1984.
California became the ...