USA – Milk marketing organisation Dairy Marketing Services (DMS) and farmer-owned co-operative Land O’Lakes have announced an agreement to jointly market milk from both organisations in north east USA.

The agreement will involve around 7.3 million tonnes of milk, produced annually by dairy producers represented by the two organisations in the region.

DSM and Land O’Lakes officials said the focus of the agreement is to provide greater efficiencies and increased savings in the areas of milk marketing, assembly and transportation.

The companies’ CEOs added that the alliance recognises the intensely competitive and rapidly consolidating dairy marketplace, and the fact that the two companies’ market geographies overlap.