by j2marketing | Nov 9, 2018 | Cheese Market News
Over the last two years, there has been a lot of talk about the historically wide spread between Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) block and barrel cheese prices. Various reasons have been offered up, but the causes are rooted in several supply and demand factors....
by j2marketing | Aug 24, 2018 | Cheese Market News
Over the last few years, milk processing capacity, or the lack of it, has been frequently discussed. U.S. milk production continues to grow, the equivalent of more than 7.5 million pounds per day each year. The United States has added a significant amount of milk...
by j2marketing | Apr 27, 2018 | Cheese Market News
The evolution of dairy price discovery and risk management While still new in some parts of the world, dairy futures trading started in the early to mid-1990s in the United States at both the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile...
by j2marketing | Apr 21, 2017 | McCully News
Better Ways to Price Whey Two years ago, I wrote an editorial for Cheese Market News titled “What way to price whey?” which highlighted the problems with price discovery for a variety of whey products. While those problems persist, there are several solutions being...
by j2marketing | Mar 8, 2017 | McCully News
I. Introduction Price volatility in the US dairy industry started 25 years ago following reforms in the 1985 Farm Bill. Changes in dairy policy in Oceania, the EU, and the US have led to increasingly volatile dairy commodity prices. Since 2007, regional dairy markets...
