The price of milk.

crimson fan man

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Buying milk at the grocery store is really starting to make me think that the milk companies are taking a hint from oil companies. Why is milk so expensive?:conf2:
 

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All deliverables have risen simply because it costs more to bring it to us . Oddly enough , the store I buy from has topped out and dropped again . My milk went from $3.59 up to $3.89 over the past 2 years . Now , it's back to $3.59 & $3.69 . Bread is still up .20c from being up by as much as .50c . Everything else seems to be reasonable where I shop . The store my mom buys from is fairly high by comparison but , it always was .
 

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corn=ethanol=high milk prices. cows eat corn, silage actually.
Bingo. The government mandated ethanol additive has driven up the price of corn which raises prices down the line on other related goods.

There was a story a couple of months ago about how tortillas in Mexico (which is a food staple) had risen in price as well.
 
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I sort of deal in food and related stuff.

Ice cream - going way up.

We've been discussing milk prices lately. Some stores close to the Outer Banks are around $4.19 a gallon.

Corn oil is used in a lot of food processing. Expect food prices to increase dramatically - and it's not oil company style profits being produced.
A year ago, I could get milk locally for $2.30 a gallon. Now, it's a dollar higher (or more).

I figured it was a combination of high fuel prices and the demand for corn.....ethanol and high feed prices due to the demand for corn in ethanol.

Corn is an ingredient for so much of what we use....sweeteners, additives, etc.
 

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A year ago, I could get milk locally for $2.30 a gallon. Now, it's a dollar higher (or more).

I figured it was a combination of high fuel prices and the demand for corn.....ethanol and high feed prices due to the demand for corn in ethanol.

Corn is an ingredient for so much of what we use....sweeteners, additives, etc.
I haven't seen it that low in 15+ years - around here . :redface:
 
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I haven't seen it that low in 15+ years - around here . :redface:
It was $2.99 a gallon at Bruno's in Dothan when I lived there in '97.

For whatever they say about the cost of living in that part of the state, their food prices were pretty high. Plus, you paid sales tax on food.
 

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It was $2.99 a gallon at Bruno's in Dothan when I lived there in '97.

For whatever they say about the cost of living in that part of the state, their food prices were pretty high. Plus, you paid sales tax on food.
Used to have a sponsor who would run Barber's for a $1.99 a gallon special back in like '87-'94 and that was always the best price in town . We heard hikes were coming 4 years back and it took 2 years to happen but , as mentioned above , things have topped & dropped here in Montgomery . However , due to fuel costs , some services like the gas company have gone to a 4 day work week .
 

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Price of Likor has gone up to pert ner 2.00 a pint on Rocky Top. Quality shine is 2.50 in sum parts. If korn goes much higher mite have to start usn taters!:biggrin2:
 

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I sort of deal in food and related stuff.

Ice cream - going way up.

We've been discussing milk prices lately. Some stores close to the Outer Banks are around $4.19 a gallon.

Corn oil is used in a lot of food processing. Expect food prices to increase dramatically - and it's not oil company style profits being produced.
Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises
What’s the connection between ethanol, the biofuel produced from corn, and a cherry vanilla ice-cream?

Answer: the first is responsible for pushing up the price of the other.
I wonder if an outcry will start over the price of food now. Corn-based Ethanol has helped drive the price up of gas and now common food items.
 

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Food's likely to start spiking up before long. You've got the damage to crops from the late freeze we had, the effects of the drought in the south and the flooding in the midwest, and on top of all that, the effects of rising oil and corn prices.

Do you ever wonder what things would look like if, say, Alabama, not Iowa, was so early in the election cycle?
 

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