Trade Data

You can probably go to many sites to see information on September's exports of dairy products. We exported a lot. We exported 3.2% of all cheese production. We exported 75.8% of all NFDM/SMP production.

Of course, we imported 67% more MPCs in September than we imported in September 2009. For the year-to-date we imported 8.3% more MPCs. Made a lot more cheese with all those MPCs.

July MPC Imports

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This is a case where one picture is worth a thousand words.

In this case too, the value per pound of MPC imports in July 2009 was $1.57/lb. In July 2010 the value jumped to $1.96/lb.