# Weekly Digest: Mailbox and all-milk prices maintain spread - Progressive Dairy | Ag Proud

> First-quarter 2021 USDA mailbox milk prices averaged about $1.25 per cwt below all-milk prices, a wider gap than in 2019. Global Dairy Trade index fell again, and Darigold announced a $500 million protein and butter plant.

- Date: 2021-07-07 · published 2021-07-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/46071-weekly-digest-mailbox-and-all-milk-prices-maintain-spread-progressive-dairy-ag
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

The widening mailbox-to-all-milk gap reflects pandemic-era marketing effects, while the falling GDT index points to softer global dairy prices.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bearish ▼

## Sources

- agproud.com: https://www.agproud.com/articles/55162-weekly-digest-mailbox-and-all-milk-prices-maintain-spread

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