USDEC has been a unique and fruitful partnership between farmers, processors and USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

A Japanese culture focused on health and wellness opens doors for U.S. whey protein concentrate.  

Dairy demand is growing and U.S. exporters have a geographical advantage dealing with the world's longest mountain range, the Andes. 

The first installment of our eight-part video series goes south of the border to the largest single market for U.S. dairy exports.

Doing dairy business in a country where you don't know your manners? Save this infographic.

USDEC has developed a preparedness plan that will help members protect public health and restore confidence should a crisis occur.

An April 16-17 conference in Singapore gives U.S. suppliers opportunity to cultivate relationships in booming market.

A food safety scare is no longer confined to a state or region. It becomes news everywhere around the world a company is doing business. 

There are many lessons to be learned from New Zealand's food-safety scare in 2013. One of them revolves around traceability.

Enhanced traceability is about improving customer and consumer confidence together.

Why should U.S. processors publicly commit to enhanced traceability best practices released this week? I can answer that in just two words: business benefits.

The U.S. government is in the midst of a major overhaul of food safety regulations via the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). In addition, consumers in the United States and abroad are more attuned than ever to food safety issues due to a series of widespread tainted-food incidents. Globalization, technology and the near-instantaneous media spread of any food safety misstep demand an accelerated response to food safety questions.

Back in 1997, the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments began making the case for a voluntary dairy food safety program called HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points). This program remains an internationally accepted, science-based system for ensuring food safety controls. At the time, the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance was doing the heavy lifting on dairy safety. HACCP was heralded not as a replacement for the PMO, but rather as another (voluntary) tool used to reinforce quality and customer satisfaction.

A week or so before Thanksgiving, Mexico became our first billion-dollar overseas market. It was like watching our first-born go through a graduation ceremony—the satisfying reward after years of careful nurturing.

You should be familiar by now with the findings of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s 2009 “Globalization Report.” The comprehensive strategic analysis of the global dairy landscape meticulously outlined world supply-demand trends and how they were affecting the U.S. dairy industry.