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Consumption and Sales of Milk and Dairy Products

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  • Miller, Robert H.

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This article introduces 2 new series--sales of manufactured dairy products by product weight and total sales on milk equivalent bases. The milk equivalent data have been computed on a solids-not-fat basis and a total solids basis. Though the U.S. Department of Agriculture has published estimates on milk and dairy products consumption for about 3 decades, interest in sales information has been stimulated by the availability of additional sales data in Federal and State marketing areas and the need for analyzing supplies marketed or sold to consumers. These new series have been developed for 3 reasons: (1) Dairy farmers and dairy firms are interested primarily in commercial sales rather than national consumption of milk and dairy products. (2) The rapid changes in consumption of home-produced milk on farms with milk cows have made national consumption data an inadequate measure of changes in market demand. (3) The increase in use of dairy products containing a large proportion of solids-not-fat, relative to the high-milkfat products, has made the measurement of consumption by milk equivalents, fat solids basis, less satisfactory than formerly.

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  • Miller, Robert H., 1966. "Consumption and Sales of Milk and Dairy Products," Miscellaneous Publications 320869, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:320869
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.320869
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    1. True, Arthur W. & Hardaway, Irene L., 1967. "Economics of Agriculture -- Reports and Publications Issued or Sponsored by USDA's Economic Research Service, October 1965-September 1966," Miscellaneous Publications 321238, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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