New York cheese production down 7 percent in November from October

New York production facilities produced more than 72.2 million pounds of cheese (excluding cottage cheese) in November 2025. That was down 7.3 percent from the nearly 78 million pounds produced in October 2025, but up 7.9 percent from almost 67 million pounds in November 2024, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reported on Jan. 6. U.S. cheese production (excluding cottage cheese) totaled nearly 1.22 billion pounds this past November, down 3.4 percent from about 1.26 billion pounds in October, but up 5.9 percent from about 1.15 billion pounds in November 2024, per the USDA. New York state producers accounted for nearly 6 percent of national cheese production, according to the November 2025 data.