Dairy statistics, December 2017
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Released: 2018-02-26
Cheddar cheese production rose 4.6% from 2016 to 162 350 tonnes in 2017, while specialty cheese production increased 3.6% to 310 856 tonnes. Creamery butter (up 16.4% to 108 774 tonnes) and hard ice cream (up 3.0% to 141 875 kilolitres) production was also higher, while yogurt production decreased 5.0% to 387 464 tonnes.
Stocks of creamery butter were 83.7% higher on January 1, 2018, at 21 255 tonnes, compared with the same day last year. Meanwhile, cheddar cheese stocks rose 10.1% to 52 269 tonnes and variety cheese stocks were up 11.5% to 36 246 tonnes.
Total cash receipts from milk and cream sold off farms totalled $6.6 billion in 2017, up 6.3% from 2016.
Note to readers
Dairy statistics are available for Canada and the provinces.
Data on dairy stocks for January 1, 2018, are now available in CANSIM table 003-0033. These data represent the ending stocks of the previous month.
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