MD_DA811 Cheese - Foreign Type Report 50 - Released on December 12, 2018 Cheese sales in Germany and in other European Union (EU) countries are lively in view of year-end holidays. Buying interest from all sale channels is rising and they are expected to continue to enlarge until the holidays. Worldwide market requests for EU cheese are within the usual figure compared to past years. Current low stocks are barely enough to meet the growing demand. Altogether, cheese prices have recently stabilized at rock-bottom levels, easing the competitiveness of EU cheese in the global market. Cheese yield has remained flat because of lower milk output in some of the EU¶s main milk producing countries. In the U.S., wholesale blue, gorgonzola, parmesan, and Romano cheese prices dropped $0.0025, but Swiss cheese prices moved up $.1275. All other prices stand still at the levels of the preceding 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 : 1.8625-3.3500* Gorgonzola : 3.6900-5.7400 : 2.3700-3.0875* Parmesan : -0- : 3.2525-5.3425* Romano : -0- : 3.0525-5.2025* Sardo Romano (Argentina) : 2.8500-4.7800 : -0- Reggianito (Argentina) : 3.2900-4.7800 : -0- Jarlsberg : 2.9500-6.4500 : -0- Swiss : -0- : 3.2750-3.5975* Swiss (Finland) : 2.6700-2.9300 : -0- * = Price change. Information for the period December 10 - 14, 2018, 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: http://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy DMN Database Portal: http://www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/da-home