How much is a gallon of milk? In 2024, the average retail price of whole fortified milk in the United States was *** U.S. dollars, which was a decrease from the previous year. Milk production Dairy farming is an agricultural business which is engaged in the long-term milk production within the dairy industry. Dairy farming is a large contributor to the overall economy in many states. California, Wisconsin, and Idaho had the highest milk supply in 2022. Continuing the trend of each year breaking the record for milk production, an estimated ***** billion pounds of milk were produced in 2023. Milk consumption Since 2011, there has been a steady decline in milk consumption in the United States, with just **** liters consumed per capita compared to **** in 2011. This could be explained by consumers’ increasing shift towards plant-based dairy alternatives. In 2019, ** percent of consumers consumed soy products at least once a week, up from ** percent in 2010.

Fresh whole milk, fortified, sold per gallon regardless of packaging type. Includes organic and non-organic milk."

Monthly average retail prices for selected products, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.

Milk rose to 17.17 USD/CWT on December 2, 2025, up 0.06% from the previous day. Over the past month, Milk's price has risen 1.48%, but it is still 13.50% lower than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Milk - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

This statistic shows the average retail price for * liters of partly skimmed milk in Canada from January 2016 to February 2022. The retail price stayed fairly constant for most of 2021, at around *** Canadian dollars, but jumped up to *** Canadian dollars in February 2022.

Monthly average retail prices for food, household supplies, personal care items, cigarettes and gasoline. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Prices are in Canadian current dollars.

This statistic shows the ten U.S. states with the highest amount of milk production from 2020 to 2024. California, is the leading producer, where over four million pounds of milk were produced in 2024. Milk productionDairy farming is an agricultural business which is engaged in the long-term milk production within the dairy industry. It is a large contributor to the overall economy in many states. California, Wisconsin, New York, Idaho and Pennsylvania had the highest milk supply.The number of U.S. dairy farms has sharply decreased in the last decades, while dairy operations have ever-larger numbers of cows concentrated on a single farm. These extensive dairy farming conditions with a large herd size and a high milk output are seen as a profitable way for the milk industry in order to provide milk at relatively low cost for the consumer. Due to its high milk volume, the main cow used for milk production is the Holstein-Friesian. However, with this intensification of milking cows there comes a corresponding concentration of manure production which causes problems and challenges for the environment such as the risk of elevated nitrogen levels or contaminated ground water.Due to these environmental impacts, many dairy operations in Wisconsin are now facing opposition regarding plans to expand their dairy herds.

In 2024, egg substitutes saw their dollar sales value grow by *** percent in the U.S. market. In the 52 weeks ending December 1, 2024, the dollar sales value growth rate of meat and seafood substitutes was at approximately minus ***** percent. Egg substitutes have the lowest dollar sales value in the market for plant-based foods. Plant-based food in the U.S. Plant-based foods tend to be more expensive than their animal-based counterparts. The average price of milk, for example, is *** U.S. dollars per gallon, compared to **** U.S. dollars per gallon of milk alternatives. The average price for meat is **** U.S. dollars, whereas meat alternatives are about twice as expensive. Sales of plant-based foods in the U.S. had been growing much faster in recent years than the sales of the total food retail market. However, in 2023 and 2024, while total food retail has experienced positive growth, sales of plant-based foods dipped into negative numbers for the first time, perhaps signaling some stagnation in the market. Plant-based milk in the U.S. Milk alternatives have the highest sales share of plant-based food alternatives. Plant-based milk alternatives account for approximately ** percent of all U.S. plant-based alternative sales. By comparison, plant-based meat only accounts for *** percent of all meat dollar sales. The volume of milk substitutes consumed in the United States was almost *** million kilograms in 2024. This figure is forecast to reach close to *** billion kilograms in 2030. The leading milk alternative brand ranked by brand awareness in the U.S. is Silk, followed by Blue Diamond's Almond Breeze and Chobani.