Cheese and Pizza

Hey everybody. I know all of you like the rest of America love to eat pizza, right? Well, pizza lovers, brace yourself for a higher cost of pizza due to the rising cost of cheese. Cheese is the costliest ingredient in pizza and since December of last year, mozzarella cheese prices have increased 16% while cheddar cheese has seen an increase of 25% according to the USDA's statistics. Pizza chains say that about 35% of the cost to make a pizza is the cheese used in the pie. Bad weather in Europe and New Zealand and high feed costs hurt global milk production in 2013, especially in the first half of the year. As a result, American dairies sent more cheese overseas. In the first 10 months of 2013, cheese exports were up 17% over 2012 leaving less cheese for cheese loving Americans. Crystal Wilson is a Registered Dietician working for the United Dairymen of Idaho and suggests that's not a good thing because cheeses... they are naturally high in high quality, complete protein source you look at featuring them as part of each of your meals, that helps you get to the 20 to 30 g. for A large share of the exported cheese went to Korea, Mexico and China. Domestic consumption is expected to increase about 2% this year and by the end of 2014, inventory is expected to be its lowest in a decade. Idaho is ranked third in the nation in terms of milk and cheese production. In 2011, Idaho was home to 578,000 milk cows with an average milk production of 22,934 pounds, per cow, annually. Looking at dairy products,