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What country leads the world in cheese exports and has received international recognition for high quality? The answer, of course, is the United States.
Nearly half of all “new” milk produced in this country over the last 13 years has gone to markets beyond our borders. Since 2004, the expansion in U.S. dairy exports alone added an average of $1.25 per hundredweight per year to U.S. farm milk prices. That has meant an additional $36 billion in milk revenues since 2004.
“The Secretary’s Column” by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is a weekly feature of the USDA blog. Learn more at http://blogs.usda.gov/
As a warm winter drew to a close with the warmest March on record, many farmers around the country were already in the fields and others are itching to get crops in the ground.
Each planting season begins with such promise. This one is no different.
