# High Milk Production, Cheese Stocks Weigh Down Dairy Prices - WPR

> Wisconsin milk production in January and February ran more than 2% above 2016, and cheese stocks in February were 6% above last year and nearly 18% above 2015. Professor Bob Cropp expects milk prices to fall toward about $15 per hundredweight in the coming months as spring output rises.

- Date: 2017-03-22 · published 2017-03-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72151-high-milk-production-cheese-stocks-weigh-down-dairy-prices-wpr
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Heavy milk output and cheese inventories are building faster than sales, which weighs on Class III and cheese prices and lowers the cost of dairy-based feed ingredients.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bearish ▼

## Sources

- wpr.org: https://www.wpr.org/agriculture/high-milk-production-cheese-stocks-weigh-down-dairy-prices

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