Wisconsin strengthened its hold as the country’s top cheese producer by making a record 3.37 billion pounds in 2017, which accounted for 26.6 percent of the nation’s production, new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows.
It was the 16th straight year that Wisconsin broke its production record set the previous year, according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Overall cheese production in the state increased 3.6 in one year.
Nationally, cheese production reached 12.7 billion pounds, a 3.9 percent increase. Eleven of the country’s top 14 cheese-producing states increased production in 2017, according to the NASS data. California was the nation’s second-leading producer at just over 2.5 billion pounds, which was a one-year drop of less than 1 percent.
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