Dairy Trade Doing Well

The International Dairy Foods Association is reporting that the dairy industry is seeing growth and trade without the disruption and trade that other segments of the ag industry is and has experienced. President and CEO, Dr. Michael Dykes, with an update on trade and the IDFA current projects,

“We have tripled trade since the 2000s Weave dairy wasn't an export product necessarily. We're seeing growth in Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, South America, and unlike a lot of the other participants in the ag sector, we've not seen the disruption in trade. 2025 I think, was a record year for cheese exports. We are doing an amazing job. We've created a project called Project Diversify USTRS. We work with the US Trade Representative's Office on how do we diversify our market outreach. Where are there opportunities? So we're trying to create use data on the markets and other countries as a dashboard for our members to be able to determine where it might be another opportunity to export another dairy product, too. We're exporting to 143 different countries.”

And according to the IDFA website, in addition to the data back guidance, the project Diversify will expand over time to include interactive tools that allow users to explore emerging and high-potential markets across regions and product categories. With today's Line on Agriculture report. I'm Lorrie Boyer.