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The federal order Class III milk price for February was announced at $16.08 per hundredweight, up 91 cents from January but $1.70 below a year earlier. Butter and cheese inventory data from USDA showed mixed changes, with butter stocks up sharply from December.
Futures for the rest of 2024 were quoted in the $16.77 to $18.71 range.
The modest monthly gain reverses a two-month slide, but prices remain below breakeven for many US farms, which can limit herd expansion and dairy feed demand. The rise is small and does not yet signal a sustained price trend.
thefencepost.comLee MielkeMar 7, 2024After 237 past bullish report events, Milk (Class III) moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.6%), and +1.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
