Locally, here in the York County (PA) area, a gallon of milk is $3.09; heard on the news this morning, on the way into work, that a $.58 hike will take it to almost $3.70/ gal. Yikes!
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OK, now let us kill off the horrid "Milk 'Stash" advertisements. These never sold a single quart of milk, but cost the Dairy farmers millions.
High milk prices are due to a wide number of factors, including several bad years for the dairy trade, a problem in the BSE factory, high beef prices (lots of cows have gone to burger), and no more heifers coming in from Canada.
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almost $3.70/ gal. Yikes! The headline here should really be Government Prints More Money.
When I was a teenager (early 60s), the daily New York Times was a nickel and a quart of milk was a quarter, five times as much. Today's copy of the Times is a dollar so if milk had risen proportionally a quart would now be five dollars. And you complain about paying less than four for a gallon!
ML/NJ
3 posted on
04/24/2004 6:26:40 AM PDT by
ml/nj
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But what about the children?
4 posted on
04/24/2004 6:31:51 AM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
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Thanks for the article.
At the present time, our local 7-11 stores sells 2% milk for $1.99/gallon. I wonder if even 7-11 can keep up that loss leader?
6 posted on
04/24/2004 6:42:18 AM PDT by
M0sby
((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC))
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Classic example of political special interests, kickbacks, and abuse of the constitution.
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Big deal. Milk is still cheaper than "designer" bottled water.
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and if the truth be known, the feds have tons of powdered milk warehoused...
The plain label milk in So Cal is 2 gallons of non-fat for four dollars...cheaper than what we're paying for gas...now if I could just figure out a way to get the Jeep to run on milk...LOL
ohhh for the all the 7.62's I fired in my time...fugedaboutit!
11 posted on
04/24/2004 6:53:30 AM PDT by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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because the Agriculture Department is raising the minimum price paid to farmers to a record high I'm not real good at economics and stuff but, if farmers are getting subsidized more, why are the farmers raising prices? Seems to me that, with more money to float their enterprises, they could keep prices the same or even drop them.
12 posted on
04/24/2004 6:59:34 AM PDT by
Types_with_Fist
("You'll never get the pass code Eric!")
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Of all the rotten luck
I am putting the finishing touches on a car than runs on milk
It runs in the family
My grandad started 1UP
It failed so he tried 2UP
My dad took over and tried 3, 4, 5 & 6UP
I joind the Army.
13 posted on
04/24/2004 7:04:05 AM PDT by
DeaconRed
(sKerry did a flip flop, stepped on a pop top, got a purple heart.)
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It's all about Milk. (c)
liberal_drivel Big Milk. (c)
liberal_drivel Haliburton Stole The Milk. (c)
liberal_drivel Military Milk Complex. (c)
liberal_drivel No Blood For Milk (c)
liberal_drivel
See how silly these comodity arguments are ?
14 posted on
04/24/2004 7:04:52 AM PDT by
ChadGore
(Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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Forget milk.
My favorite beer just got jacked up to $10.49 a gallon. Now that's a crisis. Beer is nothing more than reconstituted water that makes your head hurt if you imbibe a wee too much. You shouldn't have to pay so much for colored water with bubbles. How about a congressional investigation.
15 posted on
04/24/2004 7:21:46 AM PDT by
sergeantdave
(Gen. Custer wore an Arrowsmith shirt to his last property owner convention.)
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It's President Bush' fault! /sarcasm off
By the way, I buy organic milk. It's already about $4.00 per gallon, but I pay more for no hormones for the kids. My teenager has enough to start with.
16 posted on
04/24/2004 7:27:44 AM PDT by
manic4organic
(An organic conservative)
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Milk Prices Expected to Hit Record Highs It must be OPEC's fault. Which makes it Bush's fault.
18 posted on
04/24/2004 7:57:10 AM PDT by
chainsaw
(http://www.hanoijohnkerry.org.)
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These idiots are killing the industry. Milk consumption is plummeting. The market is screaming "LOWER PRICES" but these jerks can't hear.
20 posted on
04/24/2004 8:03:39 AM PDT by
DManA
To: dighton; aculeus; hellinahandcart; Constitution Day; general_re
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BTTT;PING
Respectivly
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It's about time people started complaining about the price of milk. Here in New Orleans the average price is $3.79 a gallon, nothing below $3.10. In fact, I was shocked last week to see Super Wal-Mart( which is generally much cheaper than the supermarkets)charging $4.69- $4.89 a gallon!!
Appalling, because we all know that far more than half of that price is the packaging and distribution.
Whenever I hear people scream that gasoline is up to $1.60 a gallon, I wonder if they would like a milk-powered car.
26 posted on
04/24/2004 9:27:54 AM PDT by
ClearBlueSky
(Whenever someone says it's not about Islam...it's about Islam.)
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About my comments above: I grew up in a farming community, and have many relatives still trying to make a living farming, because it is the only life they know. It is NOT an easy life.
And, I'm kinda hurting too, it was painful to see all of my Grandparent's farm and ranch land sold off. Because it was simply not an option to keep it in the family.
On my Dad's side, part of it was the original homestead, from 1880 or so.
On my Mom's side, it was purchased in the 1920's and 1930's. I was told that some of those land payments during the depression were kinda tough to make.
So that's all a touchy subject with me.
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Hey, has FR poster, ole Willie Green seen this? He should be excited in seeing how well government micro management works! Or maybe this would be euphoric news for him.
32 posted on
04/24/2004 11:03:15 AM PDT by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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