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Fluid Milk Consumption Continues Downward Trend, Proving Difficult to Reverse

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  • Stewart, Hayden
  • Kuchler, Fred

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Fluid cow’s milk has long been a grocery staple for most U.S. households. However, as dietary habits change, individuals are drinking less milk on average. The USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System shows that U.S. daily per capita consumption of fluid milk decreased over each of the past seven decades. Between 1990 and 2000, it fell from 0.78 cup to 0.69 cup (an 11.5-percent decline). By 2010, it was down to 0.62 cup (10.1 percent lower than it had been in 2000). Compared with each of the previous six decades, U.S. daily per person fluid milk consumption fell at its fastest rate in the 2010s. In 2019, it was 0.49 cup (20.7 percent lower than in 2010).

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  • Stewart, Hayden & Kuchler, Fred, 2022. "Fluid Milk Consumption Continues Downward Trend, Proving Difficult to Reverse," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 2022, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:329746
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329746
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