Comments on: Ohio Meeting Discusses Milk Market http://www.wdexpo.org/2009/08/31/ohio-meeting-discusses-milk-market/ The World Dairy Business Blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:51:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://www.wdexpo.org/2009/08/31/ohio-meeting-discusses-milk-market/comment-page-1/#comment-58123 Chris Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:54:27 +0000 http://www.wdexpo.org/?p=5235#comment-58123 Actually, milk prices for dairy producers have not represented market cost since the New Deal. Any increase to consumers has been on the side of processors and retailers (as you rightly said). What should be done is a mandate for INCREASED market prices for dairy and controls placed on price inflation by distributors. Decreasing the price for consumers alone would only further decrease the market price paid to farmers and exacerbate the current problems. Perhaps we need more than economics 101 to address this... Actually, milk prices for dairy producers have not represented market cost since the New Deal. Any increase to consumers has been on the side of processors and retailers (as you rightly said). What should be done is a mandate for INCREASED market prices for dairy and controls placed on price inflation by distributors. Decreasing the price for consumers alone would only further decrease the market price paid to farmers and exacerbate the current problems.

Perhaps we need more than economics 101 to address this…

]]> By: Karene Coble http://www.wdexpo.org/2009/08/31/ohio-meeting-discusses-milk-market/comment-page-1/#comment-55181 Karene Coble Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:35:03 +0000 http://www.wdexpo.org/?p=5235#comment-55181 The price of milk needs to be lower to consumers. Instead, the processors and retailers are getting high profits at our expense. If the price was dropped in the stores, the excess on the market would have been off the market in a short time. That is economics 101, the supply and demand curve. Perhaps there needs to be some regulations along those lines. We all need immediate action to survive, maybe this could be a first step. Thank you for your attention. The price of milk needs to be lower to consumers. Instead, the processors and retailers are getting high profits at our expense. If the price was dropped in the stores, the excess on the market would have been off the market in a short time. That is economics 101, the supply and demand curve. Perhaps there needs to be some regulations along those lines. We all need immediate action to survive, maybe this could be a first step. Thank you for your attention.

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