Cows may do all the work, but for the past few months the bulls have taken over U.S. butter markets, sending prices to some of their highest levels ever.
Butter joins milk and cheese as the latest dairy commodity to see record or near-record prices this year, as people around the globe increasingly gobble up as much protein as the world can produce.
"All of agriculture, from grain crops to pork and beef, all of these things have had a real good run of late. And farm income has been at record highs because of this incredible demand from nations like China, India and Brazil that have millions of people entering the middle class for the first time," said Casey Langan, spokesman for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.
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