The nation’s cheese supplies continued to pile up, reaching a 26-year high last month, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.

U.S. cheese inventories totaled 1.012 billion pounds at the end of April, up 7.8 percent from the same period in 2009, the USDA said in its monthly Cold Storage report May 21. That’s the highest for any month since supplies topped 1.044 billion in Nov. 1984. For the full story click here.