Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange took back earlier week gains Thursday as block cheese and cash butter closed lower.

January Class III milk down six cents at $20.32. February 43 cents lower at $22.20. March a nickel lower at $22.33. April down 11 cents at $21.87. May through July nine cents lower to a penny higher.

Dry whey up $0.0075 at $0.77. Two sales were made at $0.7650 and $0.77.

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