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Article: U.S. cheese consumption up sharply - Sacramento Business Journal:
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- Sacramento Business Journal
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- September 22, 2004
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California Milk Advisory Board. U.S. producers have supplied 92 percent of the 1.8 billion pound increase in cheese consumption since 1994, with half of this new demand met by increased production in California alone, the milk lobby says. The study also notes that specialty cheese consumption, on a per capita basis, has grown five times faster than total cheese consumption over the past decade. Americans consumed 8.8 billion pounds of cheese in 2003 with a total market value of $39.9 billion, according to the study. Of this total, commodity cheese represented approximately 8 billion pounds with an estimated market value of $33.5 billion, and specialty cheese accounted for 815 million ...