Ilena Peng from Bloomberg has written about the expansion of U.S. cheese exports. Former French President Charles de Gaulle once noted that his country has hundreds of different cheeses and the U.S. had hundreds of different religions. But the U.S. has since become a major producer of many different types of cheese, has won numerous awards for their quality, and is now second to Europe in supplying the rest of the world with cheese. Global cheese demand is growing at nearly 6 percent CAGR and the U.S. is riding that wave. Ms. Peng notes that American processors are building new plants across the country. U.S. cheese exports have increased each month over the past ten months despite a rising dollar. U.S. cheese exports increased 15 pe...
What You Need to Know Today: Day three of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour found corn yield potential below last year in both Illinois and western Iowa. Illinois corn yields averaged 184.2 bushels/acre, down from 199.6 bushels/acre last year and the 199.2 bushels/acre three-year average, while wester...
The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) projects China’s chicken imports to drop by 33 percent this year and another 15 percent next year, as domestic production outpaces growing consumption and the country’s own exports surge. In its annual report on the Chinese poultry...
Key Takeaways: $13 billion in new U.S. dairy processing investment is moving across the sector, led by cheese ($3.2 billion), milk and cream ($2.9 billion), and yogurt and cultured dairy ($2.8 billion), with butter-powder capacity ($1.6 billion) and ice cream ($530 million) rounding out the bu...
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