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Milk futures, cash dairy higher

Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange continued higher Thursday while cash trade was mostly stagnant.

April Class III milk down a penny at $17.63.  May unchanged at $19.22.  June up 11 cents at $19.75.  July up five cents at $19.85.  August through October contracts nine to 13 cents higher.

Dry whey unchanged at $0.6750.  One sale was made at that price. 

Blocks unchanged at $1.8025. 

Barrels up $0.0025 at $1.8150.  One sale was made at $1.81.

Butter unchanged at $1.8050. 

Nonfat dry milk up $0.01 at $1.32.  Three trades were made from $1.31 to $1.32.