looks like I'll be drinking less milkOriginally posted by: LordJezo
Price cap got raised by a dollar by the feds...
Price of milk is going to be going up a buck.
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Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
I hate to say it...but if I don't someone else will...
...time to find a girl with tig ol' bitties?
Originally posted by: richardycc
I remember paying less than $2 for a gallon of milk, and less than a dollar for a gallon of gas in the mid-80s, so it's not really that bad!
Hell... I remember paying that less than 3 years ago!Originally posted by: richardycc
I remember paying less than $2 for a gallon of milk, and less than a dollar for a gallon of gas in the mid-80s, so it's not really that bad!
Originally posted by: richardycc
I remember paying less than $2 for a gallon of milk, and less than a dollar for a gallon of gas in the mid-80s, so it's not really that bad!
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
WTF, the price of milk is set by the feds?
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Viper GTS
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Act) continues the milk price support program through 2007. The support price remains at $9.90 per cwt, and CCC continues to have authority to adjust relative purchase prices of butter, Cheddar cheese, and nonfat dry milk twice during each calendar year.
The standard measurement of dairy products is in the form of "per hundredweight," also known as "cwt". This is equal to 100 pounds of milk, or approximately 11.6 gallons of fluid milk.
The USDA separates milk into four different classes, based on what the milk ultimately will be used for.
Class I Milk: Fluid milk for drinking purposes.
Class II Milk: Soft manufactured products, such as cream products, cottage cheese, ice cream and yogurt.
Class III: Cream Cheese, other spreadable cheeses, and hard cheeses.
Class IV: Butter and dried milk products such as nonfat dry milk.
Pricing: State and federal laws affect how much is paid to farmers for their milk. Minimum prices are based on, and vary according to, how the milk is to be used. For example, the price paid for farmers for milk to be used for drinking (fluid, or Class I milk) is higher than the price paid for milk that will be used to make cheese (Class III milk.)
About 70 percent of the milk produced in the U.S. is regulated under the USDA's Federal Milk Market Order program. Some states-- such as California--and portions of other states are not covered by the federal program but instead by state programs.
Originally posted by: CraigRT
that sucks... i love milk... it's already expensive dammit !
Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.
Originally posted by: LordJezo
Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.
Everything is bad for you and you should never eat anythign if you think like that.