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WEATHER
CROPS AND MARKETS
Published Weekly by the
United States Department of Agriculture
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EXPORT BUTTER DEMAND CAUSES MUCH INTEREST
Sales to United Kingdom Strengthened Early Summer Market—Shift in England’s Supply Sources.
A demand for American butter by English buyers had a materially strengthening effect on the early summer market in the United States. This generally unexpected export demand has called forth various explanations in the attempt to determine the probability of continued demand from that source.
An analysis of the international butter trade of the past 10 years indicates that a change not yet generally realized has taken place in the seasonal trend of imports of butter into the United Kingdom, which largely accounts for this demand in anticipation of an autumn shortage. This change is due to the shift that took place during the war in the sources of supply of that greatest of all butter-importing countries.