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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 78.822(p) -8,2% -5,7%
June 86.681 92.639 79.309 85.506 80.002 87.886 86.603
July 83.065 93.640 73.475 81.225 82.354 99.652 90.171
August 86.673 82.555 71.192 83.585 76.505 94.248 78.814
September 80.239 79.006 69.537 78.823 75.864 90.561 69.951
October 80.884 81.709 68.684 75.576 83.966 79.749 84.003
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-May 446.188 407.191 361.227 395.671 405.023 416.168 443.003 386.341
% y-o-y ¹ - -8,7% -11,3% +9,5% +2,4% +2,8% +6,4% -12,8%
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: 05-07-2019
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