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CME milk and butter up in Monday’s trade

The dairy markets were mostly higher Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

 Class Three May milk was down $.01 at $15.22 a hundredweight. June was up $.24 to $15.90. July was up $.20 to $16.45.  August was up $.19 to $16.80. The milk futures from September through next April ranged from one to fourteen cents higher.

Grade AA Butter was up $.05 at $2.4350 per pound.  Seven carloads sold from $2.4250 to $2.4350.

Barrels were up $.0375 at $1.57 per pound.  Twenty carloads of barrels sold with prices from $1.5425 to $1.5575.

Forty-pound blocks were up $.0575 to  $1.64 per pound. No sales were recorded.

Nonfat dry milk was up $0025 at $.8550 per pound.  No sales were recorded.

Dry whey was unchanged at $.37 cents per pound.  No sales were recorded.