If you are paying $1.35 a gallon for the milk the farmer is getting pennies on the dollar. Wal-Mart did a bait and switch with dairy farmers in this area, about building a new processing plant that would take all the milk from miles around. Sounded great, right? Farmers cheered.
They decided to only buy from ONE factory farm with 10,000 cows and shut out everybody else, even when the local farmers could pool their output and match the one factory farm.
Oh, I don’t know. On Friday, the Walmart in the county seat was charging more than double the price for milk and eggs as the one nearer me. I think the manager decides the price based on “what the market will bear.” I bore it because it was more convenient to stop there.