Butter Up at a Record as California Drought Meets Shifting Diet
- `Fat is not the villain' as natural products are back in vogue
- Dairy output down in California, the largest U.S. butter maker
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You should have gone long butter.
Spot prices for the dairy product -- perhaps one of the more overlooked commodities trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange -- rose 2.5 percent to a record $3.10 a pound Thursday. Butter futures are up 65 percent this year on the bourse.