Levitt was the eyes and ears for exports
In 1995, exports were an afterthought for the U.S. dairy industry. That’s when Dairy Management Inc. created and funded the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) to change that.
Skeptics were aplenty back then. The industry needed someone who could explain exports factually, clearly, and concisely — without hype.
The job was more than communications. It required analysis of complex factors, such as global milk production, consumer demand, competitive dynamics, foreign trade regulations, currency exchange rates, and geopolitical developments.
Alan Levitt emerged to tell the U.S. export growth story for decades with a commanding grasp of dairy trade data and statistics.