Cheese production continues to grow

USDA’s annual dairy product report confirms an incremental decline in butter and powder products last year while cheese and ice cream increased.

Total cheese production totaled more than 14 billion pounds, more than two percent from 2021 with Wisconsin producing a quarter of the nation’s cheese. Italian and American cheese both made up slightly more than 40 percent of the production mix.

Butter production was slightly more than two billion pounds, down two-tenths of a percent from the prior year. 

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