Dairy co-ops' milk volume up, but market share down slightly

摘要

Dairy cooperative members in the United States marketed more than 160 billion pounds of milk in 2012, maintaining a dominant, but slightly lower, market share for co-ops during the five-year period between 2007 and 2012. This and other findings are the results of a survey of all dairy cooperatives conducted by the Cooperative Programs of USDA Rural Development. The survey is done every five years, with the most recent questionnaire collecting information on the milk-marketing operations of dairy cooperatives for fiscal 2012.