Table 1. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Prices, Weekly Averages
17-Dec-99 10-Dec99 3-Dec-99 26-Nov-99
Cheese
500 lb. barrels
40-lb blocks
Nonfat dry milk
Extra Grade
Grade A
Butter:
Grade AA
Table 2. NASS Weekly U.S. Average Survey Prices
11-Dec-99 4-Dec-99 27-Nov-99
Cheese:
500 lb Barrels 1/
40-lb blocks
Butter
Nonfat dry milk
Dry whey
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1 0300
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1 0300
1 0300
1 0100
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20-Nov-99
13-Nov-99
1 2056
1.2396
1 0768
I 0189
0 1925
1 1443
1 1833
1 0660
1 0158
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HAVE YOU
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□ Milk (any kind)
□ Milkshake
□ Cream soups -----
(Eke cream of tomato)
□ Pudding (made with milk)
□ Ice creanVFrozen yogurt
□ Yogurt
□ Cheese (any kind)
□ Macaroni and cheese
□ liens
□ Pizza
□ Salmon with bones
□ Sardines with bones
□ Collard greens
□ Broccoli
If you had fewer than two dwdo, you
forgot to fod your bones, ind they
ouy not be gettiof enough cakium
to any you through life.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 25, 1999-A25
(Continued from Pago Al 5)
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The two are separate
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class prices and hence farm
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