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Federal class milk prices set records in April This column was written for the marketing week ending May 6. WE BUILD OUR STALLS RIGHT! The U.S. Department of Agriculture Take a look at announced the April Federal order our tubing with Class III milk price at $24.42 per hununequaled corrosion dredweight. This is up $1.97 from protection! News and information for Minnesota and Northern Iowa dairy producers March, $6.75 above April 2021, highest Class III since July 2020, and 18 cents Freudenthal Tubing has been and $15.69 in 2019. Wisconsin produced 296.6 million pounds of specific the shy of the record high. engineered for your MIELKE MARKET March total, up 9.6 percent fromrequirements February butstrength 3 where n WEEKLY Late morning on May 6 Class III percent below a year ago. California provided 213 and corrosion resistance are futures portended a May price at $25.05 Auto was Release Head Locks Panelup 5CORROSION You’ll recall March milk production By Lee Mielke million pounds, percent from February and 1 critical design factors. PROTECTION (which would be a new record high), down 0.5 percent from March 2021 but the percent above a year ago. Idaho added 89.3 million June at $24.47; and July at $24.19 per month’s Dairy Products report shows pounds, up 22.2 percentCS-60 from Comfort FebruaryTie but down 1 Stall cwt. cheese vats and churns still got a workout. percent from a year ago. The four-month Class III average stands at Cheese production totaled 1.197 billion pounds, up The Toughest Italian cheese totaled 512.8 million pounds, up 10 $22.04, up from $16.40 at this time a year ago, and 8.3 percent from February and 1.1 percent above percent from February and 2.1 percent above a year Stalls compares to $15.84 in 2020 and $14.71 in 2019. March 2021. Cheese stocks were down 1 percent ago. Year-to-date, Italian stands at 1.5 billion on the output for the first three The April Class IV price set another new record at from a year ago. Cheese pounds, up 3.8 percent from 2021. • Provides superior lunge area market, $25.31 per cwt., up 49 cents from March, and $9.89 months of 2022 totaled 3.5 billion pounds, up 3 perAmerican-type cheese, at 473.6 million pounds, • Much stronger than ago, our so we’re going cent from the same period a year guaranteed above a year ago. Its four-month average is at competitors’ beam systems See MIELKE, pg. 14 through a lot of cheese. $24.31, up from $14.14 a year ago, $14.78 in 2020, not to bend • No Stall mounts in the • Entire panel made of H.D. 10 gauge tubing concrete or sand are hot dippedWI galvanized after W. 6322 Cty. O,• Panels Medford, 54451 • Fully adjustable welding inside and out (715) 748-4132 • 1-800-688-0104 • Stall system stays high and Heaviest, • 6’, 8’, 10’, 12’ lengths dry, resulting in longer life www.freudenthalmfg.com Strongest, REMODELING, EXPANSION OR REPLACEMENT • 12’ panel weight 275 lbs. • Installation labor savings Custom Buy Direct From Manufacturer and SAVE! We Can Handle All Your Barn Steel Needs • Head-to-head and single row Cattle Diagonal Feed Thru Panel options available Auto Release Head Locks Panel Gates • Compare the weight of this on the system, heaviest available Elevated Dual Market on the market today
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