MD_DA811 Cheese - Foreign Type Report 11 - Released on March 13, 2019 The German semi-hard cheese market is stable. Domestic sales are good although they were a bit affected by the carnival days. Global requests for cheese are strong ahead of the upcoming holiday. In general, contractual demand and supplies are balanced. Some postponements in orders' processing occurred due to limited stocks. At the same time, several unscheduled orders could not be fulfilled. Cheese manufacturing is mostly stable. Many processors report having sold out their cheese in advance of producing it. The sliced cheese market is stable with higher prices reported. In the U.S., the prices for wholesale blue, gorgonzola, parmesan Italy, and Romano dropped by .0450. All other prices are unchanged from the previous week. WHOLESALE SELLING PRICES: FOB DISTRIBUTORS DOCK DOLLARS PER POUND (1000 - 5000 POUNDS, MIXED LOTS) : NEW YORK VARIETY : IMPORTED : DOMESTIC : : Blue : 2.6400-5.2300 : 2.0700-3.5575* Gorgonzola : 3.6900-5.7400 : 2.5775-3.2950* Parmesan : -0- : 3.4600-5.5500* Romano : -0- : 3.2600-5.4150* Sardo Romano (Argentina) : 2.8500-4.7800 : -0- Reggianito (Argentina) : 3.2900-4.7800 : -0- Jarlsberg : 2.9500-6.4500 : -0- Swiss : -0- : 3.0200-3.3425 Swiss (Finland) : 2.6700-2.9300 : -0- * = Price change. Information for the period March 11 - 15, 2019, issued weekly Published by: Dairy Market News - Madison, WI FLORENCE KONE-GONZALEZ, (608)422-8594 Email: Florence.KoneGonzalez@ams.usda.gov Additional Dairy Market News Information: Dairy Market News (DMN) by Phone: (608)422-8602 DMN Website: https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy DMN MARS (My Market News): https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/