Fluid milk and yogourt consumption were down, butter and cheese are up and ice cream is steady.
The onset of COVID-19 lockdown sent fluid milk sales soaring in March, but was back down in April.
“The very rapid change from food service to retail buying has significantly skewed year-to-date dairy data for 2020,” said John Guess of DairyBusiness.
The long-term trends are for fluid milk consumption to decline and cheese to increase, he said. Together they account for about half of the milk marketed in the U.S.
Michael Dykes, president and chief executive officer of the International Dairy Foods Association, said the long-term trend is to increased milk consumption.
“Since the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) began tracking per capita dairy consumption in the 1970s, the trend has continued upward for five straight decades, increasing 21 per cent since 1975,” he said.
