Cheddar cheese prices enjoy a bump on Tuesday

With some of the highest single day price gains ever, Tuesday of this week proved to be a highlight for Cheddar cheese prices in the spot market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. By Ray Mueller

Butter is back, bubbling up with golden demand

That bar of butter on the shelf was once seen as the bad boy of your refrigerator, the artery clogger to be avoided, except for the occasional guilty indulgence. What’s popcorn without butter, after all? Still, sales of margarine and other butter substitutes spiked for years.

CWT Assists with 8 million Pounds of Cheese, Butter and Whole Milk Powder Export Sales

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold) and Tillamook County Creamery Association who have contracts to sell 465,175 pounds (949 metric tons) of Cheddar and Gouda cheese, 6.515 million pounds (2,955 metric tons) of butter and 1.041 million pounds (472 metric tons) of whole milk powder to customers in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and South America. The product has been contracted for delivery in the period from October 2015 through March 2016.