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Dairy product prices

National Dairy Products Sales Report for the week ending April 19: cheddar cheese blocks averaged $2.36 per pound down 5.5 cents from the previous week. Barrels were 6.2 cents lower at $2.28, butter decreased 1.6 cents to average $1.96, nonfat dry milk increased 1.2 cents to $2.01 and dry whey increased 0.8 cents to 67.9 cents per pounds.

The Base Class I price for May is $24.47 per hundredweights up 82 cents from the previous month. The Base Skim Milk Price for Class I is $17.45 per hundredweight for May, up 23 cents from the April price.