Posted on 12/28/2012 5:41:49 AM PST by GailA
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All I know is that you could smuggle in 25 pounds of premium marijuana from Mexico, and the PA State Police would be less interested than if you tried to smuggle in two gallons of milk from Ohio.
You got it right but I have to say that I wouldn't pay that much money for something I really can do without. Just like I did with Orange Juice.
I’d pay $10 for real fresh outta the cow milk but not for that watered down slop sold at the grocery stores.
Same here, I pay 6.75 for real fresh outta the cow milk. Worth every penny!
(in PA)
As a former dairy worker, i think people have to consider that unlike soda - which cost about 1.20 average i think for 67 ounces, but which really needs no refrigeration and can be stored for months, and is just sugar and flavoring - milk, which is about $1.75 for 64 ounces, requires expensive cows be feed, cared for and milked 2- 3 times a day, 365 days a year, and the milk kept under almost constant refrigeration from that time, except for being processed (clarified, pasteurized, homogenized) and delivered at least twice a week, all within about 4 days after the milk came from the cow.
And then there are the milk cases, which we used to lose about half of each year.
Kind of helps keep things in perspective.
Poultry embryos, strips of swine flesh and bovine mammary excrement. BUMP.
What I don’t see being discussed is why “the government” wouldn’t simply adjust their buying, and allow the market to normalize.
Is there some other ridiculous regulation in place that disallows the normalization?
Yes. It’s called common sense. Something that is not allowed in government.
And then there are the milk cases, which we used to lose about half of each year.
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College dorm rooms and first apartments across the country would truly suffer without them. :)
Even for dairy cows on a high corn inclusion diet, a $1 per bushel increase in the price of corn raises the feed cost by about $.30 per cow per day, or about $.04 per gallon of milk.
November?
$4.22 for the store brand of milk at Walmart
$2.85 at their pumps for gas using their gift card (10 cents off)
Unless you’ve got 100-lb calves that you’re trying to fatten into 1000-lb cattle, I can’t think why the price of cow’s milk should be a major concern for any of us humans.
Have we reached the era of Peak Milk?
When govern get involved, it always causes a problem. Then the first thing they do is fight to solve the problem with ten way to make it worse.
Man, we're getting a good deal. Around $2.69 here (SE WA State). But gas is higher than yours.
Now, they wouldn't do that would they? They wait 'til you're gone and talk behind your back.
Washington state is a large dairy producer.
In fact, I think the “Carnation” brand name came from the name of the town.
Yeah, we’re about 20 miles from the lower Yakima Valley, and I believe the other side of the state has considerable production in the Mount Vernon area - Whatcom County — and environs. Other counties also. I’ve never really understood why this state was so optimal for dairy but let it be. The best things about milk to me are the new lactose-free products.
The rain makes the grass grow.
The cows eat the grass.
Then they poop.
That makes the grass grow!
;-)
Because of the conditions here, the soil is quite high in nitrogen also.
optimal for agriculture due to good land and mostly, the dams.....land once left dormant can produce wheat,soy beans, potatoes, etc as well as all kinds of fruit, and dairy too....
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