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.

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.

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

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.       

Topics include the impact of Chinese tariffs on U.S. dairy exports, progress toward USDEC's Next 5% goal and the dairy boom in Southeast Asia.

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

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

Dairy supports nearly 3 million U.S. jobs and a new study shows more than 45 million jobs are connected to the food and agriculture sectors. 

Successful DMI pilot programs with Pizza Hut and KFC in overseas markets illustrate an enormous foodservice opportunity for U.S. dairy industry.

The head of DMI's board explains the checkoff's commitment to grow dairy exports, how it benefits farmer-funders and what's happening to increase ROI.

Dairy's coast-to-coast economic ripple effect generates jobs in other industries and tax revenue in every state.  

Speaking on Midwest Dairy's "Dairy on the Air" podcast, USDEC President and CEO Tom Vilsack examines global dairy trends and how the U.S. dairy industry can capitalize on them. 

After a fact-finding mission to Japan and Hong Kong, DMI board members have continued to explain the dairy checkoff’s investment in exports, generating 367 social media posts.  

The New York Times columnist and bestselling author gives USDEC members his big-picture vision of where this era of "giant accelerations" is going.

National Farmer's Day is October 12, when the dairy industry shares inspirational stories about people like Daniel Perazzo, who latched on to a big goal when he was only 6 years old. 

When fellow farmers tell me the dairy checkoff program should just focus on the United States and forget about exports, I ask them a question they can't seem to answer.

The world needs U.S. dairy and we need the world to export more of our abundant milk, award-winning products and high-quality ingredients. 

U.S. dairy exports got off to a record start this year but that was BTT (Before The Tariffs).  Peter Vitaliano reviews the half-year that was.

USDEC President and CEO Tom Vilsack says new tariffs will remove a competitive U.S. advantage in Mexico while making it harder to sell dairy products to fast-growing China.