MD_DA901 Organic Dairy Retail Overview Report 16 - Released on April 19, 2019 ORGANIC DAIRY RETAIL OVERVIEW This survey period, organic retail advertisements declined 8 percent, compared to the previous period. Regionally, the largest change in ads was reported in the Northwest, up 294 percent. However, the South Central region noted the largest decline, 64 percent. Based on volume of ads, the Southeast region posted more retail organic ads. Organic ice cream saw the largest jump in ad numbers, increasing 52 percent, with a $1.00 jump in the average retail price. Organic milk ads declined 12 percent, but maintained the largest volume of ads for a commodity, followed by organic yogurt, which also saw a drop in ads, 11 percent. The milk price spread between organic and conventional half gallon milk represents an organic premium of $2.27, up $0.35 cents from last week. Advertising information presented is compiled from nearly 23,000 surveyed newspaper supermarket ads. Prices are valid from April 19-25, 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: WEIGHTED AVERAGE ADVERTISED PRICE (Dollars) Commodity This Last Last Week Week Year Butter n.a. 3.99 4.98 Milk Half Gal. 4.27 4.11 3.84 Gal. 5.15 n.a. 6.88 8 oz. 1.00 1.00 0.97 Yogurt 4-6 oz. Greek n.a. n.a. 1.25 32 oz. Greek 6.99 6.33 4.66 4-6 oz. Yogurt n.a. 1.11 1.25 32 oz. Yogurt 3.09 3.10 3.50 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 April 8 - 19, 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 DMN MARS (My Market News): https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/