Wisconsin cheese-makers are off to a strong start in 2015. The U-S-D-A said the state produced just over 250-million pounds of cheese in January. That's three-point-three percent more than the same month a year ago, but it's a half-percent less than the month before. Wisconsin's January production was half-percent more than the national increase of two-point-eight percent. The Badger State produced just over a quarter of the national total of 980-million pounds for January. Wisconsin lengthened its lead as the country's top cheese-maker. Second-place California had a much smaller increase of nine-tenths of one-percent, to almost 207-million pounds.
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