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Article: USDA to start reporting cheddar cheese prices.
- Article from:
- The Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
- Article date:
- May 9, 1997
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USDA will start reporting cheddar cheese prices this month. The Ag Dep't will make public weekly weighted-average prices received and manufacturers' sales volumes for 40-lb. blocks, 640-lb. blocks and 500-lb. barrels. Report will include five weeks of price data. Also, where available, regional pricing and sales volume information.
The reports complete an overhaul of U.S. cheese marketing. Moves came in response to a request from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is ...