The catch phrase for the dairy industry in 2025 has been “7 pounds of components.” This term has been gaining traction as the new goal for milk production
Despite headwinds from highly pathogenic avian influenza, weather challenges in many parts of the country, and a slight contraction in U.S. dairy herds, 2024 maintained many of the thresholds that were...
An unusual string of 13 consecutive months with U.S. milk production falling below year-earlier levels ended in August, and a 16-month streak of U.S. dairy cow numbers being down from a year ago ended...
Last month, I wrote about how the U.S. dairy market is in a Goldilocks period: production is weak and demand is not great, but it is good enough to keep milk prices at profitable levels given the poor...
There is a lot of pessimism about U.S. milk production in 2024. Even USDA, in their monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, has been continuously cutting the 2024 milk production...
Milk production in the United States seems to have entered a period of unknown duration when expansion in excess of demand will be less common than it has been in past years