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     Organic Dairy Retail Overview

     Report 12 - Released on March 20, 2020

     ORGANIC DAIRY NATIONAL RETAIL OVERVIEW

     This week, organic milk accounts for 61% of organic dairy retail ad numbers by commodity,
     but posted a 9% decline compared to the last period. The retail milk price spread between
     conventional and organic half gallon milk is $2.37. Regionally, the number of organic milk
     ads were higher in the Northeast and Southwest. Retail ads for organic cheese and yogurt
     changed 182% and minus 21%, respectively. Overall, organic butter in, one-pound packaging,
     posted the largest change in ad volume, up 133% over the previous period. Organic sour cream
     in 16-ounce packaging followed, increasing 113 percent.

     Advertising information presented is compiled from nearly 23,000 surveyed newspaper
     supermarket ads. Prices are valid from March 20-26, 2020. Retail survey ads reflect
     “advertised specials” and not the range of non-advertised supermarket cooler prices.


     Product pricing information of selected organic dairy commodities, from the current weekly
     retail survey, is presented in the following table:

     NATIONAL RETAIL ORGANIC DAIRY
     WEIGHTED AVERAGE ADVERTISED PRICE

                         This           Last           Last
                         Week           Week           Year
     COMMODITY
     Butter              $5.70          $5.29         $5.29

     Cream Cheese        $2.50          $2.50         $3.99

     Milk
      Half Gal.          $3.82          $3.99         $4.35
      Gallon             $5.00          $6.87         $6.62
      8 oz.UHT            n.a.          $1.25         $0.96

     Yogurt
      4-6 oz. Greek       n.a.          $1.25          n.a.
       32 oz. Greek       n.a.          $3.99          n.a.
      4-6 oz. Yogurt     $1.00          $1.79         $0.58
       32 oz. Yogurt     $3.49           n.a.         $3.99




     Information for the period March 9 - 20, 2020, issued biweekly

     Published by:
     Dairy Market News - Madison, WI
     DANIEL JOHNSON, 608-422-8605
     Email: daniel.johnson4@usda.gov

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