Yes, these are extraordinary times, and your dairy promotion checkoff is working in even more urgent ways to keep your milk moving and provide nutritious foods to families everywhere.

The dairy checkoff has spent the last several months doing everything possible to move farmers’ milk and quickly get it into the hands of consumers. Working with partners in foodservice and retail, and teaming up with schools and feeding centers, we’re focused on keeping the pipelines moving during the pandemic.

Our marketing objective heading into 2020 was clear: Reset the narrative on dairy to reinforce industry strength and areas of growth while highlighting the vital role dairy plays in nourishing people, communities and the planet.

We can’t do it alone at Feeding America. Our country’s food insecurity issue is too large, and it’s becoming exponentially larger as we manage our way through the COVID-19 crisis.

We’re living through some of the most challenging, unprecedented times in our lives as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. To help farmers nationwide weather this crisis, Dairy Management Inc.

The Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export assistance program and CWT member cooperatives benefited all U.S. dairy farmers in 2020byexporting189million pounds of cheese, butter and whole milk powder.

The U.S. dairy industry has been ready for this opportunity. We knew there would come a day when our customers and consumers would ask us to quantify how the work we do on our dairy farms is good for the planet.

Seven or eight years ago, I had no idea what Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) was or what it did.

We’ve all heard the phrase, “The only constant in life is change,” and today’s dynamic global landscape certainly reflects that sentiment.

You can order pizza in Asia that has shrimp or crabmeat as a topping or one that has a ring of edible powdered charcoal around its edge.