the price of milk

[Gunslinger]

has anyone noticed the skyrocketing price of milk.  I remember a few years ago when milk was about 2-3$ a gallon.  Now it's between 4-5$.  This is for that standard vitamin D or 2% crap too.  Maybe it's just a local thing, maybe it's a Texas thing.  I don't know but as much as my kids go through the crap it's starting to get expensive and it's only projected (kids wise) to get worse.

[TalonX]

As long as gasoline is cheaper than milk, we are A - O K !

[E25280]

Due to rising oil prices, demand for Ethanol is skyrocketing.  Ethanol plants are popping up all over.

A major substrate used for the ethanol producing yeast is corn syrup.  Corn syrup prices are rising due to increased demand.

You need corn to make corn syrup.  Therefore, the demand for corn is rising, making the price of this staple crop increase quite significantly as well.

Dairy cattle are often fed with corn . . . price of feed rises, the farmers have to make up the cost by raising their prices.

So, gas and milk prices are not necessarily unrelated.  

[Mr No Name]

scumbag speculators are now trading corn futures as an energy commodity... they are wrecking our economy and could care less as long as they cash in.... also explains our 300% rise in gas prices in 7 years. pure trash.

[rpm]

Numbers dude nailed it. The combination of rising feed and transportation  have been passed along to the consumer.

Corn is one of the worst plants to make ethanol from, but tell that to A-D-M.

[AWMac]

Hmmm I remember Milk at 0.19 cents a Gallon in the early '60's.

There was also a Dairy Farmer stike in '62... that hurt alotta folks with youngins.  We had to beg for milk for my baby brother at the Fire Station.

Giving away my age now...

I always wanted to be a Fireman...

Mac

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by TalonX


As long as gasoline is cheaper than milk, we are A - O K !

Thats great until you are going through a gallon every two days because you have kids.

[john9001]

down with big dairy, no blood for milk.

[C(Sea)Bass]

I personally am a milk addict and go through 4 or 5 gallons a week. So yea the prices are hurting a bit, but it's freakin' milk man! Look at the pic...fish like milk too.

[AWMac]

C(Sea)Bass<---- No Child Left Behind.

Mac

[Curval]

Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
I personally am a milk addict and go through 4 or 5 gallons a week. [/URL]

A freaking milk-head.

No doubt he has the tell-tale moustash and can be found begging for quarters down at the campus canteen so that he can score another gallon.  Probably breaks into dorm rooms leaving behind expensive TVs and computers but draining every last drop of milk from each fridge.



Seriously though...too much of anything is bad...and that is alot of milk.  Mind you, you are pretty young so it is probably okay now.  When you get older you gotta watch it though.

[C(Sea)Bass]

Its all skim milk though, that way I don't become a fatty. Plus it tastes better.

[Maverick]

This was discussed earlier here. It seems some folks said corn wasn't the primary source of ethanol and that the suppliers would be using some kind of grass for it. Yeah right.

It's the old basic beans v s bullets economics 101 lesson back again. Limited resources dictate limitations in changes in the economy and some part will suffer if the situation is not balanced. It already hit Mexico not it's our turn. Milk won't be the only thing affected by the increased cost of corn.

[Curval]

Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
Its all skim milk though, that way I don't become a fatty. Plus it tastes better.

Dude...it is Saturday night.  Why aren't you in a bar somewhere?

You are sitting at your computer discussing the price of milk!

Go get laid!  That's an order!

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Curval
Dude...it is Saturday night.  Why aren't you in a bar somewhere?

You are sitting at your computer discussing the price of milk!

Go get laid!  That's an order!

What Curval said! Leave the interwebs for us married guys that only dream of getting laid after roughly 5 years of marriage!