US: Lactose Production

This page provides, in the given period, with:

• a chart illustrating production trends over the last three years.
• a table containing production figures, represented in pound unit;
• the comparison graph between Lactose (human type) production trend in the US and wholesale prices (euro);
• a comparison graph between Lactose, WPC and Dry Whey production, represented in pound unit.

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US Production Lactose (human type) * ('000 lb)
Month	2009	2014	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	± % on 2023	± % on 2022
January	58.839	95.675	112.832	85.413	92.548	94.587	90.193	89.452	-0,8%	-5,4%
February	51.653	88.150	98.231	85.043	79.546	84.943	83.542	87.602	+4,9%	+3,1%
March	59.717	100.126	114.157	95.875	98.787	93.521	98.668	98.681(p)	+0,0%	+5,5%
April	58.153	93.492	108.057	89.120	93.120	96.162	92.838
May	59.639	98.151	109.722	90.928	95.929	94.985	95.558
June	60.429	102.836	107.903	103.160	96.586	98.429	98.125
July	61.168	101.775	106.989	100.752	100.170	95.345	94.224
August	62.065	90.223	94.974	96.736	94.813	93.173	92.371
September	60.066	91.925	95.488	94.712	93.179	91.193	95.253
October	63.926	90.542	96.493	95.652	93.184	91.462	90.017
November	61.927	86.166	88.375	88.344	88.654	88.620	84.059
December	64.977	93.169	93.634	94.712	95.704	89.419	90.687
Jan-Mar	170.209	283.951	325.220	266.331	270.881	273.051	272.403	275.735
% y-o-y ¹	+5,9%	+66,8%	+14,5%	-18,1%	+1,7%	+0,8%	-0,2%	+1,2%
Total Year	722.559	1.132.230	1.226.855	1.120.447	1.122.220	1.111.839	1.105.535
% y-o-y ¹	+8,6%	+56,7%	+8,4%	-8,7%	+0,2%	-0,9%	-0,6%
Last Update: 07-05-2024
1) change from the same period of previous year , except for years 2009, 2014, 2019, where the change is from the same period 5 years ago *: Conversion ratio: 1 Kg = 2.2046 lb (p) = provisional Source: USDA