MD_DA811 Cheese - Foreign Type Report 12 - Released on March 20, 2019 The German cheese market is well balanced. Consistent good requests from both the domestic and the global markets are keeping cheese stocks at lower levels. As Southern Europeans get ready for the next holiday, their orders are stimulating the demand for German cheese. No supplies are available for additional order fulfillment because most output quantities are presold ahead of being produced. In the EU, cheese production in 2018 was 0.2 percent above previous year levels, whereas international exports shifted up 0.5 percent in 2018 when compared to 2017. In the U.S., the prices for wholesale blue, gorgonzola, parmesan Italy, and Romano dropped by $.0225. All other prices remain 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 : 2.0475-3.5350* Gorgonzola : 3.6900-5.7400 : 2.5550-3.2725* Parmesan : -0- : 3.4375-5.5275* Romano : -0- : 3.2375-5.3925* 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 18 - 22, 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/