Total U.S. milk production 1999-2024

The United States produced about 226.6 billion pounds of milk for human consumption in 2023. In 2000, this figure amounted to around 167.4 billion pounds. The volume of cow milk produced worldwide has risen steadily over the last several years.

U.S. milk market

While milk production has seen an increase over the last several years, milk retail sales have been dropping. The retail price of milk has been fluctuating for the past several years and peaked in 2022 at 4.21 U.S. dollars per gallon.

Leading U.S. milk brands

Among the dairy brands in the U.S., private label milk has a higher level of sales than any name brand whole milk. Among name brands of whole milk, Hood generated the most dollar sales, at over 190 million U.S. dollars in 2022. In the flavored milk category, the leading name brand was TruMoo, which sold nearly 91 million units in 2018. However, private label flavored milk sold many more units than even the leading name brand.