Month: March 2011

Annual estimated total fluid milk sales in 2010 declined by 1.40 percent from 2009, according to recently released data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). This is the worst annual decline since AMS began publishing the monthly data series in 2000. Previously, the largest annual decline in fluid milk sales reported by AMS was a 1.01 percent decline in 2004 (after adjusting for the extra leap day that year). …

Public health officials discourage the consumption of raw milk, saying it could cause sickness in the very young, very old, or those in frail health. Still, the customers have arrived in increasing numbers since the farm started selling raw milk about a year ago, said Eastleighs owner, Doug Stephan. As of last week, his farm had 1,219 signed waivers on file, and sales of 200 to 400 gallons per week, depending on the season, he said. …

Sixty-nine percent of Coffee-mate users polled in a survey conducted in January by LALA-USA think that liquid Coffee-mate coffee creamer is a dairy product that contains milk or cream from cows. …