Dairy statistics, January 2018
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Released: 2018-03-26
Production of specialty cheese (which consists of all cheese except cheddar and process cheese) rose 3.5% from January 2017 to 28 035 tonnes in January 2018. Canada's top specialty cheese-producing provinces are Quebec and Ontario. Since the turn of the 21st century, the two provinces have produced between 79.7% and 89.3% of the country's specialty cheeses each month.
Stocks of creamery butter on February 1 were 28 637 tonnes, more than double (+106.6%) the total on the same date a year earlier.
Total cash receipts from milk and cream sold off farms totalled $566.2 million in January, up 3.3% from the same month last year.
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Dairy statistics are available for Canada and the provinces.
Data on dairy stocks for February 1, 2018, are now available in CANSIM table 003-0033. These data represent the ending stocks of the previous month.
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