Articles Tagged with ''dairy exports''

Proliant Dairy Ingredients’ committed expansion to sell whey permeate to more than 30 countries has earned the Ankeny, Iowa, company the Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year award.

Michael Dykes, D.V.M., president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), issued the following statement on October 6 regarding the August 2020 agricultural export data released by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Trade System:

USDA and FDA today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will establish an interagency process to further support exports of U.S. dairy products.

With milk production forecast to grow over the next 12 months and consumption taking time to recover, global market fundamentals are expected to remain weak into quarter two 2021, according to “A Delicate Rebalancing,” a quarter-three 2020 Global Dairy Quarterly report from Rabobank.

A bipartisan group of 25 senators sent a letter on Aug. 26 identifying challenges with implementing several dairy-related provisions in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Dairy Foods is seeking nominations for the 2020 Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year award.

In a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer regarding trade negotiations between the governments of the United States and Kenya, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) said a U.S.-Kenya agreement has the potential to provide tangible market access for U.S. food and agricultural exports to Kenya’s growing economy.

U.S.-based dairy companies that export dairy foods, beverages or ingredients are eligible to enter the annual awards program.

Members of Congress representing dairy districts from across the country joined together on July 8 to send a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.