In addition to the data-backed guidance, IDFA’s Project Diversify will expand over time to include interactive tools that allow users to explore emerging and high-potential markets across regions and product categories.
Several categories enjoyed significant strength in the past year.
November 10, 2025
Welcome to the 2025 State of the Industry report. For this year’s theme, we tap into the music industry where the music scene meets the dynamic world of dairy and dairy alternatives.
On May 22, Costa Rica’s National Animal Health Service (SENASA) officially approved the first American dairy cooperative for export to Costa Rica, making it the first U.S. dairy facility to be registered under the new streamlined approval process that eases market access for U.S. dairy products. This first registration paves the way for future U.S. dairy exports to Costa Rica, a $60 million market in 2024, that could have been lost if the Trump Administration was not able to navigate their new process.
Mexico and Canada, U.S. dairy’s top two global trading partners representing more than 40% of U.S. dairy exports, each imported record values of dairy at $2.47 billion and $1.14 billion respectively.
The state of dairy exporting also discussed in “Let’s Talk Dairy” podcast
May 1, 2023
Tony Rice, trade policy manager for the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), joins us for Episode 27 of the “Let’s Talk Dairy” podcast, where he discusses supply chain challenges.
Grassland Dairy Products was one of the U.S. companies that exhibited Food Ingredients Asia. The region is just getting started in the higher-protein sports nutrition and meal replacement markets, said a sales manager for the dairy processor.
DFA’s $85 million whole milk powder facility in Nevada meets the requirements of dairy customers in China and other countries. That’s one reason the dairy cooperative has been named the Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year.
November 3, 2014
Dairy Foods selected Dairy Farmers of America as the 2014 recipient of the Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year.
New regulations in China seem to further alter the playing field for milk powder brands in favor of major foreign companies, which together made up 54% of the Chinese market in terms of sales revenue in 2013.