Cheese production in Wisconsin ended two straight years of modest growth in 2012 with its strongest percentage gain in a decade, and Wisconsin increased its hold as the nation's top cheese producer.
Wisconsin increased overall cheese production by 4.6 percent to 2.8 billion pounds in 2012, according to statistics from the National Agricultural Statistics Service that were compiled by UW-Madison agricultural and applied economics professor Brian Gould and analyzed by the Wisconsin State Journal.
"The numbers reflect our increase in milk production," said Gould, who was referring to the NASS estimate that state milk production increased 4.1 percent in 2012. "Our milk has to go someplace. If we have an increase in milk, we're going to have an increase in cheese."
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