Table 39: Plants Processing Dairy Products & Volume Per Plant, Selected Years
Product Butter Total Cheese American Cheese Cheddar Italian Cheese Mozzarella Swiss Cheese Cottage Cheese /1 Cream/Neufchatel Cheese Processed Cheese Sour Cream Yogurt /2 Evap/Condensed Milk /3 Ice Cream /4 Frozen Yogurt /5 Sherbet /6 Nonfat Dry Milk /7 Skim Milk Powder /8 Whole Milk Powder /9 Milk protein concentrate /10 Dry Buttermilk Dry Whey /11 Whey protein conc. /12 Whey protein isolate /13 Lactose Fluid Milk
1990
Processing Plants 2000 2010
152 516 298 250 179 151 55 170 38 31 n/a 155 14 713 n/a n/a 76 n/a 19 n/a 47 54 23 n/a 23 605
(Number of Plants) 77 76 402 515 197 211 174 197 153 176 121 121 37 54 95 67 35 32 30 26 n/a 116 80 120 7 6 413 393 145 85 246 177 46 49 n/a 10 16 13 n/a 9 21 26 46 31 28 41 n/a 13 27 31 405 404
Average Output Per Plant 1990 2000 2010
2020 103 543 254 236 199 124 64 52 29 29 102 156 7 401 76 130 55 18 13 13 22 27 50 17 29 453
8,567 11,743 9,712 9,519 12,330 11,459 4,747 2,903 11,337 38,474 n/a 6,339 43,046 1,087 n/a n/a 11,569 n/a 9,217 n/a 1,188 17,648 6,099 n/a 8,373 93,868
(Thousand Pounds) 16,312 20,579 20,542 20,278 18,485 20,329 16,201 16,421 21,496 25,089 21,777 28,756 5,958 6,231 4,852 6,461 19,641 23,277 46,276 44,101 n/a 10,586 22,957 34,839 63,141 83,778 2,136 2,083 190 229 201 263 31,560 31,888 n/a 25,380 6,961 5,466 n/a 9,846 2,678 3,155 24,023 30,990 10,374 9,591 n/a 4,717 18,150 29,304 143,170 135,818
Source: USDA/NASS, Dairy Products Annual Summary; USDA/ERS. /1 Cottage cheese, curd. /2 Yogurt, plain and flavored (non-frozen). /3 Canned evaporated and condensed whole milk. /4 Thousand Gallons, Hard regular ice cream. /5 Thousand Gallons, Hard regular and lowfat frozen yogurt. /6 Thousand Gallons, Hard sherbet. /7 Nonfat dry milk for food use, excludes protein-standardized skim milk powders. /8 Dry skim powders. /9 Dry whole milk. /10 40% or more protein by weight. /11 Dry whey for human consumption. /12 Whey protein concentrate for human consumption. /13 90% or more protein by weight.
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2020
20,829 24,408 21,014 16,221 28,267 35,892 5,077 7,288 34,876 58,069 14,323 28,964 77,886 1,892 203 258 36,199 38,624 10,624 15,870 5,764 34,527 9,394 6,882 38,027 102,331 .
