Last week we bought a gallon of whole milk, it cost us $3.78 at Walmart or some where near that price....this week we bought another gallon and it cost me nearly $4.50!!!
I heard something about the price of milk going up and thought ok a few cents but this is crazy! Why is milk so blooming high?????
2007-07-23 10:59:26 · 7 answers · asked by itsme 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
It's the ethanol boom. Farmers are converting more acres over to corn to supply the ethanol manufacturers. Prices for corn are going up. Corn feeds the cattle that produce milk, meat, cheese, hogs eat corn so pork prices are going up, chickens eat corn so chicken is going up, anything made with corn syrup is going up. It's all about the corn and it's trickling down into any food that uses a corn by-product. And it's all because of the ethanol popularity. Iowa alone is said to be producing over 13 billion bushels of corn this year if the weather holds. But it has to be distrubuted between selling and feeding livestock. Catch-22, there. So that's why food prices are going sky-high.
2007-07-23 11:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Supposedly too many smaller dairy farmers have 'quit'/shut down their operations in the last several years. The drought in many dairy producing states has made feed for cattle more expensive and if they do not get optimal food and water, the milk production in the cows drops. So fewer producers and milk production being down means much higher prices for milk. I have read that $5.00 a gallon average nationwide is expected. ... That's reallly sad as there are a lot of lower income families will have a hard time buying milk for their kids.
2007-07-23 18:08:22 · answer #2 · answered by Barb B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The cost of fuel and also, a lot of the corn that had been used to make animal feed has been diverted into making ethanol, an alternative fuel for vehicles.
2007-07-23 18:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by eilishaa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they can do it so they will. Best prices on milk are at Food Depot. Sales are on from time to time at Walgreens and Kroger.
2007-07-23 19:17:47 · answer #4 · answered by familymomwife 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
$3.99 in Tampa Fl, The reason that it going up and down in price is due to the price of fuel....
2007-07-23 18:03:20 · answer #5 · answered by TE 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
$4.79 here in Connecticut
They say it's because of fuel costs,the drought and cost increase of feed.
2007-07-23 18:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by Helpfulhannah 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
lol.....maybe its about to be a shortage of cows (sike) i heard it's because of fuel cost i live in pennsylvania and it cost $3.78 here
2007-07-23 18:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by nekk 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋