Wisconsin’s cheese production rises 8.2 percent in a year

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There’s a big demand for Wisconsin cheese and the latest production numbers prove it.

The government said Wisconsin cheese factories pumped out 8.2 percent more cheese in August than in the same month a year ago.

That’s about three times the national increase of 2.6 percent.

And California, the nation’s No. 1 milk-producing state, continued to see its cheese output drop another 2.4 percent.

Wisconsin, the nation’s top cheese-maker, has been widening its gap over second-place California for some time.

Wisconsin produced 224 million pounds of cheese in August.

And the state’s out-put of cheddar rose a whopping 11.8 percent over the past year. All told, America’s cheese-makers produced 850 million pounds in August.

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