Dairy statistics, March 2017
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Released: 2017-05-26
The volume of milk and cream sold in March was 236 595 kilolitres, a decrease of 2.5% from March 2016.
Sales of milk in March decreased 4.0% from the same month a year earlier to 202 815 kilolitres, while cream sales increased 7.9% to 33 780 kilolitres.
Variety cheese stocks on April 1 were at 37 143 tonnes, up 4.4% from the same day a year earlier.
Note to readers
Dairy statistics are available for Canada and the provinces.
Data on dairy stocks for April 1, 2017 are now available in CANSIM table 003-0033. These data represent the ending stocks of the previous month.
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