US: Lactose Production

This page provides, in the given period, with:

• a chart illustrating production trends over the last three years.
• a table containing production figures, represented in pound unit;
• the comparison graph between Lactose (human type) production trend in the US and wholesale prices (euro);
• a comparison graph between Lactose, WPC and Dry Whey production, represented in pound unit.

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US Production Lactose (human type) * ('000 lb)
Month	2008	2013	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	± % on 2022	± % on 2021
January	62.275	85.262	94.822	112.832	85.413	92.548	94.587	88.959	-6,0%	-3,9%
February	60.504	74.832	86.232	98.231	85.043	79.546	84.943	82.682	-2,7%	+3,9%
March	64.289	89.435	100.861	114.157	95.875	98.787	93.521	98.547	+5,4%	-0,2%
April	63.817	84.768	93.472	108.057	89.120	93.120	96.162	91.420	-4,9%	-1,8%
May	65.588	87.184	96.204	109.722	90.928	95.929	94.985	94.083	-0,9%	-1,9%
June	63.383	88.686	95.874	107.903	103.160	96.586	98.429	97.381	-1,1%	+0,8%
July	65.229	86.088	98.603	106.989	100.752	100.170	95.345	92.720(p)	-2,8%	-7,4%
August	63.488	86.433	97.273	94.974	96.736	94.813	93.173
September	58.834	88.005	91.391	95.488	94.712	93.179	91.193
October	60.005	89.171	90.025	96.493	95.652	93.184	91.462
November	57.454	86.706	103.137	88.375	88.344	88.654	88.620
December	60.429	94.208	110.406	93.634	94.712	95.704	89.419
Jan-Jul	445.085	596.255	666.068	757.891	650.291	656.686	657.972	645.792
% y-o-y ¹	+24,5%	+34,0%	+11,7%	+13,8%	-14,2%	+1,0%	+0,2%	-1,9%
Total Year	745.295	1.040.778	1.158.300	1.226.855	1.120.447	1.122.220	1.111.839
% y-o-y ¹	+21,4%	+39,6%	+11,3%	+5,9%	-8,7%	+0,2%	-0,9%
Last Update: 06-09-2023
1) change from the same period of previous year , except for years 2008, 2013, 2018, where the change is from the same period 5 years ago *: Conversion ratio: 1 Kg = 2.2046 lb (p) = provisional Source: USDA