The Agriculture Department reported that the production...

The Agriculture Department reported that the production of butter, cheese and non-fat dry milk is up from a year ago. Butter output in January, the most recent month counted, was estimated at 125 million pounds, up 14% from January, 1987, the department’s Agricultural Statistics Board said. Total cheese production, excluding cottage cheese, was 433 million pounds, a 5% increase from a year earlier. That included 226 million pounds of American-type cheese, a 3% increase. Non-fat dry milk, at 83.8 million pounds, was up 2%.