US: Lactose Production

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• 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	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	± % on 2024	± % on 2023
January	66.526	90.148	85.413	92.548	94.587	90.193	89.669	93.082	+3,8%	+3,2%
February	63.620	80.505	85.043	79.546	84.943	83.542	87.552	83.824	-4,3%	+0,3%
March	76.286	92.896	95.875	98.787	93.521	98.668	98.763	100.368	+1,6%	+1,7%
April	73.319	89.274	89.120	93.120	96.162	92.838	91.706	95.353(p)	+4,0%	+2,7%
May	75.812	87.054	90.928	95.929	94.985	95.558	92.772
June	78.516	90.187	103.160	96.586	98.429	98.125	94.183
July	80.418	90.346	100.752	100.170	95.345	94.224	95.088
August	80.143	86.506	96.736	94.813	93.173	92.371	94.905
September	78.448	85.121	94.712	93.179	91.193	95.253	94.098
October	75.599	83.290	95.652	93.184	91.462	90.017	91.558
November	77.068	82.477	88.344	88.654	88.620	84.059	84.900
December	82.671	91.172	94.712	95.704	89.419	90.687	93.434
Jan-Apr	279.751	352.823	355.451	364.001	369.213	365.241	367.690	372.627
% y-o-y ¹	+17,2%	+26,1%	+0,7%	+2,4%	+1,4%	-1,1%	+0,7%	+1,3%
Total Year	908.426	1.048.976	1.120.447	1.122.220	1.111.839	1.105.535	1.108.628
% y-o-y ¹	+27,2%	+15,5%	+6,8%	+0,2%	-0,9%	-0,6%	+0,3%
Last Update: 06-06-2025
1) change from the same period of previous year , except for years 2010, 2015, 2020, where the change is from the same period 5 years ago *: Conversion ratio: 1 Kg = 2.2046 lb (p) = provisional Source: USDA