Dave’s Weekly Market Update for 12/26/25
Valuable insights on the latest market price changes for eggs, butter, cheese, and cream products.
Good afternoon and here is my final market update!
I will be retiring at the end of next week. I have really enjoyed all the relationships I have created in the past 34 years while working for N. Winer and Son and now Honor Foods. These have been with customers, vendors, and the great team of people I am fortunate enough to have worked with for all these years. I have liked being able to share my market insight with all of you over the years. The markets used to be much more predictable, and I feel I was able to be more insightful before the trading of the last few years. Things have changed since many of the traders now are just investors out to try to make a profit and not even in the dairy business. It used to be that the trades were between companies in the business only, and all of them had skin in the game. I believe that Andy Brussel, who will be filling my roll, will continue this tradition of sharing info with all of you on a weekly basis.
Eggs:
The egg market continues to fall rapidly as supplies far exceed demand. We will be lowering some Newberg further processed eggs this week also as that market is also under pressure.
Butter:
Butter declined again from last weeks close and was stable most of this week. I can’t even guess what the near future will bring in this market. Many times, butter rises in January as producers start building inventory for the 4th quarter. After this year’s market plummet, I am unsure what people will do. Certainly, there is low-cost cream to produce butter, and I guess they will pack as much as possible at these low levels.
Cheese:
This market is also extremely low due to an abundance of milk and butterfat all across the country paired with lackluster demand.
Cream and Cheese:
Cream will be dropping for January, with Hood being the only exception as they are going up. Cream cheese dropped slightly for next week also.
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I personally want to thank all of you that I have had the pleasure of dealing with for all these years. It has been a very rewarding career for me and all of you helped to make that possible. It is kind of bittersweet as many of you have become good friends and I will miss the daily interactions with many of you. Many of you have become lifelong friends that will continue to be in my life in the future as I enter the next chapter of my life.
Thank you all for everything for all these years.
We all wish you happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous new year.
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