Is U.S. Dairy Consumption Growing?
The prior post covered the growth of milk production in the U.S. This post covers the domestic disappearance and consumption of dairy products. Is the growth in consumption cooling off? Is inflation causing changes in consumption? Is the increase in milk production needed? This post is based on new data that was not available during […]
Is the Growth in Milk Production Coming from More Cows or More Productive Cows?
The last post covered the growth in milk production. The growth in milk production over five years is 2.4% (see this post). The cow count for the U.S. has grown by just .5% over the same 5 years. This post will cover in detail the monthly growth in milk per cow. Most states have increased […]
The Growth in Milk Production
Some of the recent posts to this site covered the growth in dairy. Three of these are listed below. How the Medical Community is Helping the Dairy Industry Grow The Impact of “Beef on Dairy” Is It a Good Year for Dairy? YES! This post will cover the growth in milk production through the third […]
How the Medical Community is Helping the Dairy Industry Grow
The dairy industry in the U.S. is seeing growth in all Classes of milk. The key item is the growth of butterfat. What is driving the growth? Changes in how the dairy products are viewed by the medical community. The influence in the medical community is influencing consumers. This change is slowly trickling down to […]
How Much has the Ratio of Milk Protein to Butterfat Changed?
How to manage the Increase in butterfat is a prime topic. We are short on butterfat for butter production, and we have excess butterfat for cheese making. This post will cover the change in the protein to butterfat ratio in each of the Federal Orders over the last five years. The data for protein is […]
The Impact of “Beef on Dairy”
The dairy industry is amazing in advancing technology to keep production profitable and consumer prices reasonable. Prior posts have covered improved milk per cow, higher levels of butterfat and protein, hybrid cows to enhance productivity, changes in fluid milk to increase consumption, transfer of butterfat from cheese makers milk and relocating it to butter churners, […]
INFLATION – Are Retail Prices of Dairy Products Increasing?
Retail inflation of the major dairy products was covered six months ago in a post to this site . A lot has happened since then. This post will cover the U.S. food index, and cheese, whole milk, and butter Inflation. CONSUMER FOOD PRICE INDEX The price of food has continued its increase. Chart I below […]
An Overall View of Supply and Demand for Butterfat
There is a lot of talk in the dairy industry concerning butterfat. Some say the U.S. is producing too much butterfat and others say we need to produce more before our supply and demand reaches a balance. Butterfat is a major ingredient in cheese, butter, and fluid milk. In 2024 and 2025 some butterfat had […]
Is It a Good Year for Dairy? YES!
The post below covers the volume trends for seven key analytics of the dairy industry. All charts cover the last five years and are calculated as 12-month moving averages to best display trends. How is the U.S. dairy industry doing in 2025? GREAT! This post will start with milk production (Chart I). The current […]
The Long-Term Changes in the Price of Butterfat and Protein
The prior post reviewed the recent drop in butter and butterfat values. The high values for butterfat have encouraged significant increases in U.S. production of butter. While production of butterfat has increased significantly, the volume of milk protein has increased only slightly. The values of butterfat and milk protein have also been impacted by […]
