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	2008	2013	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	± % on 2022	± % on 2021
January	62.275	85.262	94.822	112.832	85.413	92.548	94.587	88.959	-6,0%	-3,9%
February	60.504	74.832	86.232	98.231	85.043	79.546	84.943	82.682	-2,7%	+3,9%
March	64.289	89.435	100.861	114.157	95.875	98.787	93.521	98.547	+5,4%	-0,2%
April	63.817	84.768	93.472	108.057	89.120	93.120	96.162	91.420	-4,9%	-1,8%
May	65.588	87.184	96.204	109.722	90.928	95.929	94.985	94.083	-0,9%	-1,9%
June	63.383	88.686	95.874	107.903	103.160	96.586	98.429	97.381	-1,1%	+0,8%
July	65.229	86.088	98.603	106.989	100.752	100.170	95.345	92.704	-2,8%	-7,5%
August	63.488	86.433	97.273	94.974	96.736	94.813	93.173	92.311	-0,9%	-2,6%
September	58.834	88.005	91.391	95.488	94.712	93.179	91.193	95.715(p)	+5,0%	+2,7%
October	60.005	89.171	90.025	96.493	95.652	93.184	91.462
November	57.454	86.706	103.137	88.375	88.344	88.654	88.620
December	60.429	94.208	110.406	93.634	94.712	95.704	89.419
Jan-Sep	567.407	770.693	854.732	948.353	841.739	844.678	842.338	833.802
% y-o-y ¹	+24,4%	+35,8%	+10,9%	+11,0%	-11,2%	+0,3%	-0,3%	-1,0%
Total Year	745.295	1.040.778	1.158.300	1.226.855	1.120.447	1.122.220	1.111.839
% y-o-y ¹	+21,4%	+39,6%	+11,3%	+5,9%	-8,7%	+0,2%	-0,9%
Last Update: 04-11-2023
1) change from the same period of previous year , except for years 2008, 2013, 2018, where the change is from the same period 5 years ago *: Conversion ratio: 1 Kg = 2.2046 lb (p) = provisional Source: USDA