The cost of whole milk!!!!!!!?!
The cost of whole milk!!!!!!!?
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?????
Answers:
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.