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Overall, dairy milk sales had a positive 52-week period ending Dec. 1, according to Chicago-based market research firm Circana. The dairy milk category saw dollar sales rise by 2% year over year (YoY) to $17.1 billion, and eked out a 0.2% unit sales rise to 4.8 billion.

The dairy industry always takes on its fair share of competition. Whether it is plant-based products, marketing campaigns claiming dairy is “unhealthy,” H5N1 bird flu, labor challenges, and more, dairy is really holding up well.

Milk has been a basis in nutrition for centuries, building generations with its rich array of nutrients. 

On Jan. 23, senators on both sides of the aisle introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which will allow for unflavored and flavored whole and reduced fat (2 percent) milk to be offered in school cafeterias.

A great boon for Animal Farm Creamery’s premium butter business is that restaurant-owners and chefs alike like to speak to one another about successful products they use in the kitchen. 

The changes made to federal orders, including new make allowances in Class 3 and 4 milk price formulas and dropping barrel cheddar prices from the value of commodity cheese in the Class 3 price formula, will take effect June 1, 2025.

We should know: Dairy Foods visited the family who makes the butter that is the talk of many restaurants throughout the United States: Animal Farm Creamery. 

Grants Pass, Ore.-based Dutch Bros invites consumers to “ditch the bowl and sip breakfast all day long” with its new cereal-inspired drinks: Cinnamon Swirl and Marshmallow Dream.

Early last spring, some dairy cows, initially in Texas, started to get ill. The cows’ symptoms included dehydration and increased temperature. 

U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) and Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-Minn.) expressed support for the new Congress passing the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act in 2025 during remarks this weekend at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) reported.