Canadians increased their butter consumption by 32.2 per cent in March compared with February, and 10.7 per cent more ice cream.
There are more days in March.
Yet butter stocks in storage continued to increase by 992 tonnes to total more than 40,000 tonnes in March. That’s a 6,837-tonnes increase from a year ago.
That’s because milk increased.
The Canadian Dairy Commission is mandated to balance milk production and dairy consumption on the basis of butterfat. That results in a surplus of solids, not far, sometimes described as skim milk.
