Why does milk cost so much?
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It cost about 3.59 for a gallon and 2.69 for 1/2.
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well, it takes times and also the facility and instruments cost a lot (maybe)
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*best guess-inflation. I can get it on sale for about $2.20 a gallon, $1.50 half gallon. Sometimes I can find it for $1.99 a gallon and $1 a half gallon, but that is when they are running the really good sales. A lot of it depends on the supplier and the store you buy it at. *just because I feel silly-the dairy cows went on strike so they had bring in the overpriced cows to do the same job.
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The cost of oil goes up, so the cost of rasing hay crops go up, the cost of running everything on the farm goes up. Then th milk has to picked up, brought to the plant, bottled, and shipped back out. More oil/gas... watch the price of milk raise and lower with the cost of oil. There is a bit more to it as well. A lot of political mumbo jumbo. I married into a dairy farming family (they sold it 6 months ago.. hadn't made a profit in years). Milk, it does a body good!
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HA! in england the equivillent of a gallon (we only sell like, 2 pints max) is about £5, which is nearly 10 dollars...stop complaining!
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I drink chocolate milk, but I drink so much of it that the store where I buy it from blames me for the rise in price
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Milk is actually very cheap when you consider the work that goes into produceing it,the farmer has to get up at 5 AM to milk the cows and has to do it again in the everning and yet he/she makes the least profit,most of the money you pay for milk goes to the super market and the milk delivery company.
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The last three price increase letters we have recieved have stated the causes as: increase in fuel/delivery costs increase in feed costs for the cows increase in production cost of the plastic containers You decide which ones are valid.
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cows are getting greedy
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