Why the price of dairy products is rapidly rising

[Speedy]

We live not too far from Eau Claire, WI so our milk prices are pretty reasonable. Our last gallon was $2.99. Skim and whole costs the same thanks to health conscious drinkers.

[Rick-o]

Paul F. wrote:
[quote=modelamac]
Also affecting dairy products prices is the cost of feed due to lower yields (drought).

More corn for ethanol= less corn for cows, too.
Don't know about that. Corn is pretty cheap around here, (anything but a drought here though). Farmers are getting $4. per hundred lbs. and we pay $9. per hundred lb. bag at the grain elevator. Probably the lowest we've paid this year, but being harvest time, I'm sure there's a glut of it right now.

[voodoopenguin]

Speedy wrote:
Our last gallon was $2.99. Skim and whole costs the same thanks to health conscious drinkers.

Always like to see how prices compare either side of the water. Have to do a bit of calculating not just for the currency but also your gallon is different to ours.

$2.99 for a gallon is $2.99 for 3.8 litres. About 79 cents a litre.

Here 3.5 litres is 1.48 UK pounds or $2.41. About 69 cents a litre.

No difference here between whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed varieties.

How much is your butter?

Paul

[Speedy]

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Our last gallon was $2.99. Skim and whole costs the same thanks to health conscious drinkers.

Always like to see how prices compare either side of the water. Have to do a bit of calculating not just for the currency but also your gallon is different to ours.

$2.99 for a gallon is $2.99 for 3.8 litres. About 79 cents a litre.

Here 3.5 litres is 1.48 UK pounds or $2.41. About 69 cents a litre.

No difference here between whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed varieties.

How much is your butter?

Paul
We have price supports for farmers. The further you are from Eau Claire, the bigger your government check. Butter is about $2.50/pound but varies depending on the brand and quality.

[Paul F.]

$3.29 a pound at my usual grocery... (and, having visited England once, a small sampling of butter there, vs here, showed me that your butter is higher quality!).

By the way, speaking of dairy products;
We only have one kind of cream in our stores... I envy your "double cream" for pouring on berries/fruit!
our "regular" cream is thin and watery (at least, what I can get on the west coast is) in comparison.

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Our last gallon was $2.99. Skim and whole costs the same thanks to health conscious drinkers.

Always like to see how prices compare either side of the water. Have to do a bit of calculating not just for the currency but also your gallon is different to ours.

$2.99 for a gallon is $2.99 for 3.8 litres. About 79 cents a litre.

Here 3.5 litres is 1.48 UK pounds or $2.41. About 69 cents a litre.

No difference here between whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed varieties.

How much is your butter?

Paul

[(vikm)]

For the sake of the cows, it'd be nice if dairy foods would all, at the very least, quadruple in price.

[Grateful11]

I've gone to drinking Almond Milk, no more stomach aches after my morning cereal.
The Blue Diamond brand taste so much like real milk I can't hardly tell the difference.
Silk brand is nasty. Aldi brand is good but it seperates and no amount shaking will fix it.

[Grateful11]

(vikm) wrote:
For the sake of the cows, it'd be nice if dairy foods would all, at the very least, quadruple in price.

Why so they will send more dairy cows to slaughter? I know where there's some nasty dairies
and I also know some that really pamper their cows.

[Racer X]

The pigs are the ones we need to kill off. In 2011 pigs killed over 23 thousand Americans. Just over 11 thousand humans were murdered with firearms.

Pigs are the killers, not humans.

Pig farms are WAY nastier than a dairy farm too.

[eustacetilley]

Racer X wrote:
The pigs are the ones we need to kill off. In 2011 pigs killed over 23 thousand Americans. Just over 11 thousand humans were murdered with firearms.

Pigs are the killers, not humans.

Pig farms are WAY nastier than a dairy farm too.

Wrong.
http://historylist.wordpress.com/2008/05...y-animals/

Admittedly, the data is a little old, but it is unlikely that the number jumped from zero for all the years surveyed to 23,000 in 2011.
(Never expect actual logic or facts from a Gun Nut.)

Eustace