Organic Pay Price Trends

Pay Price & Organic Milk Market in September 2011

ADDED September 12, 2011. Organic dairy is in a surprisingly strong position with sales increasing at a double digit pace over last year and supply tightening across the country. With a healthy demand for product, a rising retail price but a low price gap between organic and non-organic, and a high conventional price to minimize the expense of balancing surplus milk, the outlook for organic dairy processors and consumers appears to be very healthy. MORE >

Pay Price Update
Added July 18, 2011. With a healthy demand for product, a rising retail price but a low price gap between organic and non-organic, and a high conventional price to minimize the expense of balancing surplus milk, the outlook for organic dairy processors and consumers appears to be very healthy. For more information on payprice, click here.

Feed price and retail demand both rising for organic dairy

Added May 16, 2011. Last year retail sales of organic fluid milk were stagnant, producers were being paid on utilization and feed prices were the lowest of many years. In 2011 the retail market has rebounded more quickly than expected, confounding economist expectations that consumers are only price sensitive in economically difficult times. Consumers are making choices based on organic practices and we have 20% growth in sales year over year and over 95% utilization of organic milk across the country. We also have a conventional grain market heavily influenced by the world climate disasters and the subsidy for ethanol, which has double the price of conventional corn and soybeans, making any response to the need for increased supply of organic feed expensive for producers. For more detailed information please go to:

Pay Price: http://www.nodpa.com/payprice_update_051611.shtml

Feed Price: http://www.nodpa.com/feed_prices_051611.shtml

Pay Price & Organic Milk Market Update, March 2011
ADDED MARCH 14, 2011. Record retail sales and rising prices. Learn more >

Pay Price Updates
Added January 17, 2011. Organic dairy will enter 2011 in a surprisingly strong position with sales increasing at a double digit pace over last year and supply tightening across the country. MORE >

Pay Price & Organic Milk Market in August 2010
Click here for the latest organic milk pay price information, including the retail gap between organic and conventional, total sales figures, price trends and more.

PAY PRICE UPDATE!
Added July 17, 2010. The full effect of the downturn in demand for organic dairy has been felt by all producers across the country, but we are now entering a period where demand is increasing. Get more details, charts and analysis by clicking here.

Pay price update
Added May 17, 2010. Organic milk products’ sales for March 2010 are up 3.6%, the highest month for sales since December 2008. Year to date, total organic milk products sales are up 2.7% and organic fluid milk sales for March 2010 in the Northeast Marketing Order were 7.8% higher than in March 2009, an increase of 2.01 million pounds of milk (1/4 million gallons) and 5.18 million more than in 2008, an increase of 23% from 2008 to 2010. Pay price is approximately the same as it was in 2008. Read more >

Pay Price Update
Added March 8, 2010. Pay price & the organic market in March 2010. MORE >

ORGANIC MILK PAY PRICE UPDATE
Added September 14, 2009. New England pay price since 2006, trends in organic fluid milk sales for the past four years, and new data comparing conventional and organic prices. MORE >

ORGANIC MILK PAY PRICE UPDATE
Added August 1, 2009. New England pay price since 2006, trends in organic fluid milk sales for the past four years, and new data comparing conventional and organic prices.
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Pay Price And Support Control
Added July 1, 2009. We all knew that the demand for organic milk could not continue to grow at the 20%+ it has over the last three years but the dramatic drop we have experienced this year is unprecedented and unpredictable. To shed some light on the situation we have an article that attempts to compare what the major companies are doing in this new market place. MORE >

ORGANIC MILK PAY PRICE UPDATE
Added July 1, 2009
New England pay price since 2006, trends in organic fluid milk sales for the past four years, and new data comparing conventional and organic prices. MORE >

Profitability of Organic Dairy, 2007
Added June 1, 2009. The results of an on-going financial analysis of Vermont’s organic dairy sector by UVM and NOFA-VT indicate farms in the study averaged $18,522 net farm earnings, a 0.5% return on owner equity.
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Organic pay price declines as processors panic over spring flush of milk and declining growth in sales
Added March 6, 2009. An analysis of recent pay price drops by NODPA Executive Director Ed Maltby. Learn more >

Pay Price Update January 2008

Pay Price Update February 2006

Pay Price November 2005

Pay price Article August 2005