MD_DA901 Organic Dairy Retail Overview Report 20 - Released on May 17, 2019 ORGANIC DAIRY RETAIL OVERVIEW The volume of organic retail advertisements shows no significant change from last week's survey. Interestingly, surveyed stores only offered ad specials on two organic items this week, milk and yogurt. Overall, organic milk ads grew by 31 percent, and organic yogurt ads increased 40 percent. The biggest loser in organic ad numbers by region was the Southwest, which lost 82 percent of the retail ads this week, but in the Northeast, ads were up 101 percent for the largest gain. No ads were reported in Alaska. The price spread for conventional and organic milk, in half gallon package, represents an organic premium of $2.50, up 37 cents from last week. The price spread is the difference between national weighted average prices for organic, $4.62, and conventional, $2.12. Organic milk owned 70 percent of total organic ads. The only other organic dairy commodity included this week, organic yogurt, collected the other 30 percent of total organic ads. Advertising information presented is compiled from nearly 23,000 surveyed newspaper supermarket ads. Prices are valid from May 17-23, 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. $6.18 $5.64 Milk Half Gal. $4.62 $4.02 $4.00 Gal. $6.99 $6.29 $5.60 8 oz. $0.75 $0.92 n.a. Yogurt 4-6 oz. Greek n.a. n.a. n.a. 32 oz. Greek $6.70 $5.27 $3.99 4-6 oz. Yogurt n.a. $0.74 $1.34 32 oz. Yogurt $3.14 n.a. $3.04 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 May 6 - 17, 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/