December 2010 U.S. dairy export data is released today, after this edition of Cheese Market News goes to press. So I can’t give you the exact year-end numbers on U.S. cheese exports. But whether U.S. cheese exports topped 165,000 metric tons or 168,000 metric tons (365 million lbs. or 370 million lbs.) is somewhat beside the point. The bigger takeaway from 2010 is just how far we’ve come as a cheese supplier to the world—and how far we can and must go.