Dairy markets ended the week down on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday.
December Class III milk futures finished the day down $.01 at $15.50.
After a couple of days with nice gains, January milk was down $.30 closing at $14.40. February also lost this week’s gains, closing down $.28 at $14.22. March was down $.20 closing at $14.32. The rest of the 2018 milk futures were all down except October, which was up a penny.
Grade AA Butter finished the week down $.015 at $2.245. There were no sales of butter on the CME Friday.
Barrels were down $.01 closing at $1.66. Fifteen carloads of barrels traded between $1.66 and $1.6675.
40-pound blocks were unchanged at $1.53.
Nonfat dry milk continued its record downward slide, closing down $.0075 at $.6575. There were no sales Friday.