I am vice president of editorial services at USDEC. I oversee, among other things, our website (usdec.org) and The U.S. Dairy Exporter Blog. Working with talented colleagues, I blend the best practices of journalism and content marketing to provide the U.S. dairy industry the information it needs to expand global demand for our products. You can reach me at mokeefe@usdec.org.

Wisconsin's economy leads the country with more than 12,700 jobs from dairy exports alone.

On a week-long governance mission, DMI board members saw how USDEC facilitates business partnerships in Mexico that benefit farmers back home.

Judges at the World Cheese Awards put only one French cheese in the top 15, a ranking influential newspaper Ouest-France calls a "sacrilege."

As five dairy farmers continue a governance mission to Mexico, they file updates on social media, with this day-by-day travelogue rounding up their best posts.

As DMI board members conduct a week-long governance mission in Mexico, USDEC highlights noteworthy data points about our No. 1  export market. 

Founder Errico Auricchio has built a cheese company using Italian artisan methods his Great-Grandpa taught him, remembering "traditional ways are always the best."

At World Dairy Expo, the USDEC president and CEO cites new developments and marketing strategies to increase exports to our North American neighbors as well as overseas markets.

In the short term, fewer pigs mean less demand for pig feed and the U.S. whey products that fortify that feed. But USDEC sees longer-term opportunities. 

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Strategy: Play the long game in markets with high upside, seize opportunities when playing fields leveled by U.S. trade policy.

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The U.S. dairy industry is competing to win market share in China and Japan, countries with growing demand for dairy, projected to continue for years to come .

Meetings in Beijing encourage collaborative partnerships even as retaliatory tariffs take a toll on U.S. dairy exports.       

GotDairyJobs.com has fresh data on jobs, tax revenue, GDP, exports and more—all showing how dairy helps drive the economy.

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See the significant mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, new facilities, executive hires and marketing initiatives for the first six months of 2019.

A USDEC-organized Specialty Cheese Trade Mission started in New York, headed to Vermont and will be finishing a week-long, whirlwind tour in Wisconsin on Saturday.    

The equivalent of one day of total U.S. milk production per month now goes to Southeast Asia.

Chinese importers want to mitigate supply-chain risk by adding more U.S. dairy products, but tariffs make that strategy too expensive.

Jobs and economic growth are on the line—and not just for dairy—when Congress considers the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Dairy business relationships continue as the U.S. and Chinese governments hold high-stakes talks about tariffs and trade. 

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First-person essays by four farmers show how the U.S. dairy industry lives its values for its global customers.