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IDFA, NMPF submit plan of action for US dairy industry to USDA

The Milk Crisis Plan for USDA presents the organizations’ objectives to support US dairy during the coronavirus crisis.

April 7, 2020

On April 6, the Arlington, Va.-based National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) submitted a request for assistance to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Coronavirus causing surplus of milk, financial hardship for dairy industry

Northwest Dairy Foods Association is seeking government’s assistance at state, federal levels.

April 6, 2020

Members of Northeast Dairy Foods Association Inc., North Syracuse, N.Y., as well as dairy producers and others in the food supply chain, have been greatly impacted by the coronavirus, putting the nation’s dairy farmers and milk processors business’ in great financial jeopardy.

IDDBA releasing weekly COVID-19 ‘Grocery Impact Reports’

The reports focus on the bakery, dairy, deli meat, deli cheese and deli-prepared sectors.

April 2, 2020

To help assist, inform and educate its members and the food and beverage industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Madison, Wis.-based International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) said it is releasing weekly updates with a specific focus on the bakery, dairy, deli meat, deli cheese and deli-prepared sectors.

Dairy sales rise amid coronavirus pandemic

Consumers began ‘significant stockpiling’ overall the week of March 1, IRI reports.

March 30, 2020

In their March 26 “COVID-19 Impact, Consumer Spending Tracker for MULOC Retailers US, UK, France, Italy, NZ” report — the latest in a series of weekly reports — Chicago-based market research firm IRI and partner Boston Consulting Group show that U.S. retail dairy purchases were up 57.8% during the week ending March 15, 2020, in comparison to the same time period in 2019.

NFRA report shows category power of dairy, frozen departments

The association’s latest report says almost every US household buys from the dairy and frozen departments annually.

February 24, 2020

The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA), Harrisburg, Pa., recently released the “NFRA 2019 State of the Industry Report,” which shows that today's dairy and frozen departments are clearly connecting with shoppers.

Transparency, disruption and change: the trifecta for driving dairy demand

Collaboration among farmers, processors and retailers is more important than ever.

Allen Merrill

October 11, 2019

As a fifth-generation dairy farmer in South Dakota, my passion for dairy farming grew out of a desire to not only care for my animals and the land, but to also create wholesome, healthy products that are household staples.

2019 Dairy 100: Big, Bigger and Biggest

Our 26th annual Dairy 100 ranks the largest companies and cooperatives in the North American dairy industry.

Kathie Canning

August 13, 2019

The past year brought challenges to many North American dairy processors, from tariffs threatening export sales to a growing array of dairy alternatives squeezing limited shelf space. Some dairy processors fared better than others when it came to addressing those challenges.

2018 Dairy 100: Meet Dairy's Giants

Our 25th annual Dairy 100 ranks the biggest private and public companies, as well as cooperatives, within the North American dairy industry.

Kathie Canning

August 6, 2018

As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus once famously noted, "Change is the only constant in life." And dairy processors certainly aren't immune to that reality. Expansions, acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, new business and lost business bring ups and downs, large and small, to a number of individual companies in any given year. Our latest Dairy 100 rankings, based on 2017 (or latest available) revenue, reflect those changes.

Dairies must balance exports with growing domestic sales

November 14, 2014

The Dairy Index, an annual report by the global packaging and processing equipment supplier Tetra Pak, states that global demand for milk is set to surge by 36% in the next decade, largely due to population growth, rising prosperity and urbanization in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Innovation keeps dairy brands on top

Why do some brands grow retail sales? Because they offer new products and new ideas, like using protein and developing on-the-go packaging.

Sandy Krueger Larry Levin

May 23, 2014

The consumer packaged goods industry delivered anemic growth in 2013, inching up 1.8%. The edibles category basically mimicked the trajectory of the whole industry (+1.7%), while nonedibles grew just over a percentage point and general merchandise was flat.