Whey Prices Decline, Milk Prices Follow

The CME spot dairy products session on Monday started the week with little change. Three of the four products finished the session unchanged, with butter being the lone exception. Butter declined 1.5₵ to a price of $2.1475 on four trades and one bid and offer left outstanding. Cheddar blocks and barrels were a ghost town on Monday, as no trade bids or offers showed up.

Whey to go: how the dairy industry is tackling waste

UK dairy should be crying buckets over spilt milk. The industry wasted 340,000 tonnes in 2015 alone, says Wrap, of which nearly two thirds (or 200,000 tonnes) was perfectly consumable. So huge was this mountain of milk, butter and cheese that Wrap determined dairy had more avoidable manufacturing waste than any other category in food and drink, its stream of unnecessary waste 23% of the total 870,000 tonnes. By Megan Tatum

Whey Products Lead June Export Surge

Overall whey product sales surged 25% over a year ago in June, spurring U.S. export sales to jump to nearly 15% of U.S. milk production on a total milk solids basis. Imports were equal to about 4% of total milk solids. BY JIM DICKRELL.

City in France Using Whey to Provide Power

In the Savoie region of France, residents in the small city of Albertville see cheese as more than a dietary staple. It’s what keeps the lights on. There, reports Smithsonian, the electrical potential of cheese—specifically, a nice piece of Beaufort—has been harnessed by a newly opened local power plant and is used to provide power to hundreds of homes.