Organic Pay Price Trends

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