Pizza shops should be happy. California cheese producers are making more mozzarella.
New statistics from the State Farm Bureau show California produced nearly 2.2-billion pounds of cheese. That's an almost 7-percent increase from the previous year.
Mozzarella cheese accounts for nearly 60-percent of the state's production, followed by cheddar and Monterey jack.
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Getting your sugar fix will cost you more this Valentine's Day.
A series of disasters in Australia's sugarcane region and foul weather in Brazil, India and China has caused worldwide sugar prices to double from a year ago .
A spokeswoman for the National Confectioners Association says small candy makers are most likely to be affected by the increase. A year ago, a 50-pound bag of sugar cost $15 to $17 dollars. Now, it's $30 to $35 dollars.
The U.S. gets about half of its sugar from sugarcane and the rest from sugar beets.
