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US: Dry Whey Production
This page contains:
  • a chart illustrating production trends over the last three years.
  • a table that reports the Dry Whey Production trend over the past years;
  • a comparison graph between Dry Whey Production, Stocks and Price in the U.S.;
  • a comparison graph between Lactose, WPC and Dry Whey production, represented in pound unit.
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US - Total Production of
Dry Whey  ('000 lb)
Month 2004 2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ± % on
2018 		± % on
2017
January 86.784 79.395 70.011 75.342 83.459 82.255 90.569 81.202 -10,3% -1,3%
February 84.585 74.668 65.603 76.630 74.891 77.548 89.431 74.948 -16,2% -3,4%
March 92.788 82.785 71.504 86.409 82.762 87.602 91.368 76.372 -16,4% -12,8%
April 91.816 83.218 71.629 76.512 82.075 85.218 85.731 74.997 -12,5% -12,0%
May 90.215 87.125 82.480 80.778 81.836 83.545 85.904 79.483 -7,5% -4,9%
June 86.681 92.639 79.309 85.506 80.002 87.886 86.603 82.976 -4,2% -5,6%
July 83.065 93.640 73.475 81.225 82.354 99.652 90.171 82.905 -8,1% -16,8%
August 86.673 82.555 71.192 83.585 76.505 94.248 78.814 84.909 +7,7% -9,9%
September 80.239 79.006 69.537 78.823 75.864 90.561 69.951 90.626 +29,6% +0,1%
October 80.884 81.709 68.684 75.576 83.966 79.749 84.003 89.884(p) +7,0% +12,7%
November 83.609 79.361 70.994 82.959 72.893 81.237 72.306
December 87.559 85.059 75.283 94.223 78.534 85.913 74.505
Jan-Oct 863.730 836.740 723.424 800.386 803.714 868.264 852.545 818.302
% y-o-y ¹ - -3,1% -13,5% +10,6% +0,4% +8,0% -1,8% -4,0%
Total Year 1.034.898 1.001.160 869.701 977.568 955.141 1.035.414 999.356
% y-o-y ¹ - -3,3% -13,1% +12,4% -2,3% +8,4% -3,5%
Last Update: 05-12-2019
1) change from the same period of previous year , except for years 2009, 2014, where the change is from the same period 5 years ago
**: Adjusted for months of 30 days (Ex. The calculation of the production change of June compared to May is obtained by considering [June production] compared to [May production : 31 x 30])
(p) = provisional
Source: USDA
  = Min Production in the last 5 years
  = Max Production in the last 5 years