Overall retail milk sales continued to drop in the third quarter of 2004 with unit sales totaling about 4% less than last year. Meanwhile, natural cheese and bottled water sales

Establishing a new record performance at the Olympic Games is wonderful, but setting new record high milk and dairy product prices is not.

Far too often, I hear folks in the dairy business talking about how some day the United States may be able to compete in the world market; how some day there may be an opportunity to sell U.S. dairy products to customers outside of the United States.

New international products and how they are marketed

Natural and organic food sales keep chalking up double-digit sales gains and milk and dairy products are among the growth leaders. There's more to come.

Ice cream may be poised to break out of its slump thanks to some better-for-you products. And while yogurt keeps growing, the pace of the growth has slowed, and unit

Stonyfield Farm, Londonderry, N.H., rolls out YoBaby Plus Fruit & Cereal, its newest organic offering for babies and toddlers. YoBaby Plus Fruit & Cereal is the first yogurt to contain

You know me, the eternal optimist. Well, I'm having a bad day. I've been looking at dairy sales data and it is not a very pretty picture. Fortunately, there are a few bright spots.

In May, CoolBrands International Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with U.S. offices in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., reported that its test market of Yoplait Frozen Breakfast Bars in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area

It’s the middle of summer, so it may be hard to believe, but in the past year, consumers have not been screaming for ice cream. Everybody loves the stuff, and in recent years the overall ice cream category has enjoyed steady (if somewhat modest) growth of about 2-3% a year.