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Much of the movement in USDA's December dairy outlook was a shoring up of import and export forecast for this calendar year as well as next.  World agricultural outlook board chair Mark Jekanowski said when it comes to 2022 fat solid imports.   “...

The USDA’s annual report on per-capita dairy consumption saw an emphatic rise in domestic dairy demand.  The level of demand rose from 655 pounds per person in 2020 to 667 pounds per person last year.  That’s a total not seen since 1960, when it was 659 pounds, and is approaching 1959’s consumer total of 672 pounds.   The last time America consum...

During the recent World Dairy Expo, Sarah Schmitt with Associated Milk Producers Inc., the largest cheese cooperative in the U.S, talked about how the co-op faired through the pandemic. “Cheese and butter were the darlings of the pandemic. When ...

Butter. Cheese. Ice cream. Whole milk. Consumption is up nationally and globally. And to meet that growing demand, dairy farmers are generating more total pounds of the key ingredient, butterfat. Holstein Association USA President Corey Geiger said it’s a trend that’s been taking place for years. “In ...

Darigold plans to build a new state of the art facility near the Tri-Cities. The Port of Pasco announced Thursday the sale of approximately 150 acres of the Reimann Industrial Center to Darigold. Darigold said this purchase will allow them to construct the most sophisticated, large scale milk protein facility in North America, with more than 50% of the facility’s finished product set for export,

According to World Agricultural Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski, American dairy producers have increased milk per cow. And in response, the USDA has increased milk production forecasts for both the current year 2020 and for year 2021 ...

What can dairy producers expect looking ahead to the New Year? University of Wisconsin dairy economist, Dr. Robert Cropp, said many in the farm sector started 2020 with high hopes and great anticipation. And the dairy industry was no different ...

Monday was National Milk day, and to mark the occasion, the National Milk Producers Federation shared some good news beleaguered U.S. dairy industry. “From March 8 to March 22, as stay-at-home orders and business closures proliferated around the country, dairy products flew off store shelves,” the group said in an announcement. Milk sales ...

Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, and Jim Risch, an Idaho Republican, have led a bipartisan coalition that sent a letter to Stephen Hahn, the new Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, asking him to stop the use of dairy terms on the labels of non-dairy products...

Many analysts expect the U.S. dairy herd to shrink this year, which could push milk prices higher.  They may be a month late, thanks to the government shutdown, but the USDA has finally released the milk production numbers from 2018.  Last year, dairy operations turned out 218 billion pounds of milk 1% higher than 2017's figure, and they did it with a slightly smaller herd but milk per cow was up