New York cheese production rises more than 4 percent in October

New York production facilities produced nearly 78 million pounds of cheese (excluding cottage cheese) in October of this year. That’s up 4.2 percent from the approximately 74.8 million pounds produced in both September 2025 and October 2024, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. U.S. cheese production (excluding cottage cheese) totaled about 1.26 billion pounds this October, up 3.7 percent from about 1.215 billion pounds this September, and up 3.2 percent from just over 1.22 billion pounds in October 2024, per the USDA. New York state producers accounted for more than 6 percent of national cheese production, according to the October 2025 data.