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June 3, 2016
Capital Press
Happy June Dairy Month
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For the Capital Press
H
ere we are at another June
Dairy Month and most
consumers don’t give it a
second thought. They have nev-
er seen a day that they walked
into their local grocery store and
found the dairy case empty.
And, probably never will.
Like so many things in this
country, we take it for grant-
ed and we assume there’ll
always be rows and rows of
gallon jugs of milk sitting
there, as well as the numerous
varieties of cheese proudly
displayed, and the awesome
selection of premium ice
creams in flavors we may nev-
er have even heard of.
But, while consumers are
never really concerned about
the future of the dairy indus-
try “because they get their
milk at the grocery store,”
dairy farmers walk a very
fine financial line every day,
especially considering where
milk prices are today com-
pared to the record highs of
just two years ago.
Plus, they face an ever-in-
creasing threat from so-called
environmental activists, many
of whom have a vegetarian
agenda.
June Dairy Month 2014
saw U.S. dairy farmers in a
position they hadn’t been in
many years, with on-farm
milk prices that actually paid
the bills, but they were short-
lived.
Those prices set record
highs and provided badly
needed relief from the last
painful lows, which occurred
in 2009 and put many opera-
tions out of business.
There are bright spots for
dairy farmers today and dairy
products are as popular as
ever.
Butter has been exonerated
Dairy
Markets
Lee Mielke
and is replacing margarine as
the spread of choice at home
and in fast food chains, which
now proudly boast of their use
of butter in today’s menus.
Whole milk sales have also
seen positive growth as new
health studies show that dairy
fat is not the demon it was
once made out to be.
Unfortunately, fluid milk
consumption overall is still
slipping but there have been
some promising powerful
new efforts even by non-dairy
companies to stem the tide
and bring consumers back to
the milk beverage category so
fluid milk consumption has
not been surrendered.
Cheese consumption re-
mains strong in the United
States but we still have a ways
to catch up to many other coun-
tries in the world in per capita
consumption. New product
innovations will hopeful-
ly boost that category even
more.
The song many years ago
said, “The times, they are
a-changing,” and they are. A
very small percentage of the
U.S. population today is in-
volved in agriculture or even
has ties with it, a huge con-
trast to what it was not that
long ago.
But consumers still have
an affinity for the farm, and
farmers, for the most part, are
held in high regard.
Consumers also have a
new zeal to know more about
their food, where their food
is coming from and how it
is produced. Dairy has an
excellent story to tell and is
doing so.
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Joe Beach ..................................... Editor
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On the Cover
Heifers graze at Seymour
Dairy, where they spend
most of the year outside en-
joying the mild temperatures
of the Oregon Coast.
Courtesy of Seymour Dairy