Articles by Tom Suber

An industry group is at work to fix a broken milk powder price-discovery process that is resulting in damaging volatility, lost competitiveness and eroding global market share.

In the ongoing maturation of the U.S. dairy industry as a global player, we took another step forward in 2012.

We’re in the right place at the right time. The global dairy industry is a growth sector — that much is crystal clear. At the “Future of Food” summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this summer (an event co-hosted by the dairy producer-funded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy), speaker after speaker talked about the challenges of feeding the planet’s growing population.

Back in 1997, the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments began making the case for a voluntary dairy food safety program called HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points). This program remains an internationally accepted, science-based system for ensuring food safety controls. At the time, the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance  was doing the heavy lifting on dairy safety.

A week or so before Thanksgiving 2011, Mexico became our first billion-dollar overseas market. It was like watching our first-born go through a graduation ceremony — the satisfying reward after years of careful nurturing.

China asks for a new health certificate; India abruptly changes import permit requirements; the European Union makes U.S. exporters jump through fresh hoops.

In this space last fall, I introduced what has come to be known as “The Globalization Study.” This report, more formally titled “The Impact of Globalization on the U.S. Dairy

USDEC’s Tom Suber on exporting challenges.

If global dairy demand has been irreparably damaged since the markets turned last summer, someone forgot to tell Keith Turner.Turner is chairman of New Zealand Milk Co., a startup that

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