Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were mostly higher Tuesday as optimism for better feed costs comes into focus, cash markets were quietly higher.

October Class III milk was down eight cents at $16.93. November five cents higher at $17.33. December up eight cents at $17.56. January eight cents higher at $17.99. February through April contracts four to eight cents higher.

Dry whey up $0.0025 at $0.2850. Eleven sales were made at $0.2850 and $0.2875.

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