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     Organic Dairy Retail Overview

     Report 40 - Released on October 4, 2019

     ORGANIC DAIRY RETAIL OVERVIEW

     Total retail organic dairy advertisements fell 39 percent from the previous week's total ad
     numbers. By region, ads decreased in the Northeast, Southeast, South Central and Southwest.
     The Northwest had the highest volume of organic retail ad numbers, driven by a 56 percent
     upturn in retail ads. There were no organic dairy ads in the Midwest, Alaska, or Hawaii. The
     ads, by commodity category, exhibited   declines for both organic yogurt and milk, 47
     percent and 43 percent, respectively. At the same time, organic cheese ads rose 71 percent.

     The price spread between the organic and conventional half gallon milk decreased this week.
     The organic price, $3.48, and conventional price, $2.35, led to an organic premium of $1.13
      this report week, compared to $1.84 the previous organic report week. When compared to last
     year at this time, the organic price premium was 41 cents higher.

     Of the top 5 organic commodities featured, organic milk captured 47 percent of the total
     organic ads by commodity this week, followed by organic yogurt at 34 percent.

     Advertising information presented is compiled from nearly 23,000 surveyed newspaper
     supermarket ads. Prices are valid from October 4-10, 2019. Retail survey ads reflect
     ³advertised 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


     Commodity          This         Last         Last
                        Week         Week         Year

     Butter              n.a.        $5.49       $5.07

     Milk
      Half Gal.         $3.48        $3.99       $3.67
      Gallon            $5.70        $5.81       $6.99
      8 oz.UHT           n.a.         n.a.        n.a.

     Yogurt
      4-6 oz. Greek     $1.37         n.a.       $1.27
       32 oz. Greek     $4.31        $4.29        n.a.
      4-6 oz. Yogurt    $0.69        $1.15        n.a.
       32 oz. Yogurt     n.a.        $3.50       $2.67

     Complete results of the ³National Retail Report-Dairy´ and ³Bi-Weekly Organic Report´ are
     accessible using the following links:

     1 https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/dybretail.pdf

     2 https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/dybdairyorganic.pdf

     Information for the period September 23 -  October 4, 2019, issued biweekly

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

     Additional Dairy Market News Information:
     Dairy Market News (DMN) by Phone: (608)422-8602
     DMN Website: https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy
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