As the National Dairy farm magazine, Hoard's Dairyman provides dairy producers with dairy market prices and includes the weekly butter price from CME, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

From 1966 to 2010, butterfat levels in the U.S. milk supply held a rather tight window ranging from 3.66% to 3.69%

The U.S. dairy market is awash in cream

The butter market at the start of 2025 is completely different than the start of 2024. In early 2024 the narrative was that milk production was down and couldn’t grow due to a lack of replacement...

Americans’ rekindled love affair with butter continues to gain momentum. In 2023, the average American consumed 6.5 pounds of butter

Consumers all over the world have been craving more and more butter

The headline consumer price index (CPI) continues to coast back toward the target inflation range of 2%, but consumers are experiencing stronger inflation in their butter prices heading into the holiday...

Demand for butter has been strong in the United States, and that clearly is the case around the world as well

In a year when dairy commodities have been hit hard by slumping prices, butter has remained at the head of the class, barely dipping below $2.50 per pound at the wholesale level and recently rebounding...

One of dairy’s best attributes as a food category is that milk’s versatility means there is a dairy product that can fit almost any cooking, baking, or eating need. For even more variety, the...

Butter sculptures at consumer events highlight dairy in a special way

Dairy helps us make our favorite cookies, desserts, drinks, and more during this special time of year

This Thanksgiving, I decided to highlight butter in a new, trendy way

While some dairy products have seen dramatic gains in purchases due to COVID-19 and other products such as yogurt have seen consumers curtail buying, butter has been somewhere in the middle

Consumers have been flocking back to butter. That’s because evidence continues to mount that all dietary fats are not equal

Butter prices are slipping, with a high likelihood of falling below $2.10 per pound this month for the first time since November 2016

From 2000 to 2018, milkfat levels in the collective U.S. bulk tank jumped from 3.68 to 3.89 percent

The dairy industry has had plenty of issues to drag our spirits down lately. Some of those items would include the fourth year of relatively low milk prices, trade wars, and a wet fall hampering fieldwork...

Butter has become a hot commodity item in France as of late. A combination of several factors has tightened butter supplies