Overview

The United States produces more milk, 185.4 billion pounds in 2007, than any other individual country. The country's top dairy-producing states are (in order): California, Wisconsin, New York, Idaho and Pennsylvania. The dominant use of milk is cheese (41%), followed by fluid milk and cream (23%), butter (18%) and ice cream and other frozen dairy products (8%).

Nearly ten percent of the milk and dairy products produced in the United States are shipped overseas. Mexico, Southeast Asia and Canada remain the largest importers. For the first time in years, the United States posted a trade surplus of dairy products in 2007; exports totaled $11 million more than imports.  December 2008 ... International Dairy Markets


Marketing

• Canadian Dairy Information Centre
• Commonwealth of Independent States (including Russia).
• Dairy Council, United Kingdom.
• Danish Dairy Board
• Dairy Good, Australia.
  
• Dairy: Trade, Economic Research Service, USDA.
• Dairy: World Markets and Trade, FAS, USDA, 2007.
• Dairy Market Statistics, 2007 Annual Summary, AMS, USDA, May 2008.
• European Commission - Agriculture
• European Dairy Association
• Fonterra Co-operative Group, New Zealand.
  
• Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS), USDA.
• Foreign Trade Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau.
• Import Watch, National Milk Producers Federation, March 2008.
• International Dairy•Deli•Bakery Association
• International Dairy Federation
• International Dairy Foods Association
• International Dairy Programs, AMS, USDA.
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
• Supply and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free Trade versus the AUSFTA for the U.S. Dairy Industry, University of California Agricultural Issues Center, 2006 - This paper presents a simulation model of world dairy markets and analyzes the effects on U.S. milk markets of both a hypothetical agreement allowing free bilateral trade in dairy products and the actual Australian-US Free Trade Agreement.
• U.S. Agricultural Trade, ERS, USDA.
• U.S. Dairy Export Council

Production

• American Dairy Products Institute
• Dairy Products 2007 Summary, NASS, USDA, April 2008.

 Businesses/Case Studies

• Dairy Policies in Japan, Economic Research Service, USDA, 2005 -  This report provides a detailed description and analysis of Japan’s policies that support its milk producers and regulate dairy markets.
• Developments in World Dairy Markets, 2002-2006: Implications for the U.S. Dairy Industry, Babcock Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
• Trade Liberalization in International Dairy Markets: Estimated Impacts, Economic Research Service, USDA, 2006 - Based on economic modeling, liberalization would reduce world dairy product supplies and increase the value of dairy trade.
• U.S. Dairy at a New Crossroads in a Global Setting, Amber Waves, ERS, USDA, 2005 - Despite high tariffs and price support policies that continue in many dairy-producing countries, U.S. milk producers and dairy companies face increasing competition from other countries.
• U.S. Dairy Trade: Situation and Outlook, 2008, Babcock Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
  
   

Links checked December 2008.