Milk prices might go to $5 a gallon this summer.

[mh70450]

you can milk just about anything with nipples

can you milk me, greg?

[zlmxtd]

cause of corn and the price to deliver the milk due to fuel

ding ding we have a winner

[coast2coast]

I'll cry if it gets to 5 bucks a gallon (No homo)

[hangman_27]

Damn, my family (me and my dad) go through a gallon a day on average. Damn ethanol... Just make some nuclear reactors so we can charge our cars up from that. That way I get my cheap milk. Besides, we have enough room for the waste, and we can let the future deal with it if it gets out of hand!

[Fleshka]

I read this on marketwatch.com. This would suck. Milk price going to $5 a gallon. I've seen some increases in whey prices. Dymatize whey 5lbs is now more expensive.

it is 4 a gallon here. i get my milk at costco so it is 3 bucks a gallon. sucks man.

[Fleshka]

to deal with this problem, i am going to suck on nursing mother's tits for my milk source.

beat that muscle milk!

[BFJ]

if it's due to transport has anyone heard anything about eggs or other stuff going up?

[Fleshka]

seriously these prices are insane.

i might get my own farm and **** at some point in life so i can have endless dairy supply.

[bukshot]

I pay $7.30 for a gallon down here, so it could be worse...

[imweasel]

Dammit.

I like milk.

[bttrthnb4]

I heard that prices of eggs and meat is also going to rise. Along with the rising fuel prices, California's ag regions are dry and animals are dropping like flies, I think they said something like 30,000 animals died from the heat last summer?

[WH06]

I for one am happy that milk prices are rising. My family milks about 10,500 cows, and with the feed cost going up so fast, we really needed the price per hundred weight of milk to go up. But even with the increased price we are getting paid, it still doesn't completely offset the higher feed prices....damn that ethanol.

[Jmh80]

WH is right.

This is all due to the mandate by the government to increase the amount of ethanol blended to motor gasoline.

Corn is being directed away from livestock to make EtOH.

Hence - the rise in prices of whey, milk, etc.

So - this really is both George Bush and Congress' fault. But - all of that was driven by you people b*tching and moaning about "foreign oil".
Now we have gasoline that gets less miles per gallon and higher milk and whey protein prices.
Great.


I'd imagine pretty soon Mexico will be in a world of hurt due to the cost of tortillas rising. Rioting in the streets of Tijuana!

[ManInTheBox]

I read this on marketwatch.com. This would suck. Milk price going to $5 a gallon. I've seen some increases in whey prices. Dymatize whey 5lbs is now more expensive.

It has nothing to do with the middle east or president Bush. It has everything to do with an increased demand, and a shortage. For those of you who have taken an economics course, it's actually the consumer's fault. Most of the whey protein comes from dairy plants in New Zealand. The cost of production has gone up, as did the seperation of whey/casein process. These factors combined equals the reason for why the cost of whey protein has gone up.

EDIT: Also, if you want to talk about why gas is expensive, ask the environmentalist groups why we can't drill for our own oil. And if we went to war for the oil, where did it go? Yeah, President Bush is keeping it all for himself in Texas. Get real. It's the democrats that are keeping gas prices high, and that is a fact. Who harbors environmentalists? Who protects PETA and the Sierra Club? Not George W. Bush. Clinton? Yes. Furthermore, no one has control over who prices gas except for oil companies, which is basically a monopoly.

[TySJI]

milk has simple sugars anyway.

So do apples and oranges, but they're all low GI.

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I hope this isn't true. I should just buy a cow.

[C_Kent]

Thank god I bought myself a cow

[solidus2k3]

WE need to invade another country to sustain our love for milk!

[bttrthnb4]

So do apples and oranges, but they're all low GI.

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I hope this isn't true. I should just buy a cow.

I thought about buying a cow too...but you can't milk them all year long, and you'd have to have her bred to have a calf (could help with beef) in order for her to make the milk....so ideally I'd need two or three and just cycle them....seriously thought about gettin some chickens tho. And maybe a few rabbits...

[gollybegully]

What did it say was the reason? That really sucks, my parents give me enough crap for drinking so much milk. We go through about 2 gallons a day but i live in a big family.

the reason is ethanol. ethanol is made from corn, which makes corn prices rise. Corn is used to feed cows...and so on.

Funny the unintended side effects.

[QuicksandATL]

It's already over $5 here in Atlanta.

[aslan]

****, i drink a gallon a day and im already broke as hell... i could never afford 30+ dollars for milk a week when im already spending 20 dollars a week on gas and money on other ****... fack

[TySJI]

$5+ and I'm finding a chic with a breast feeding fetish.......












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[superfunk]

It has nothing to do with the middle east or president Bush. It has everything to do with an increased demand, and a shortage. For those of you who have taken an economics course, it's actually the consumer's fault. Most of the whey protein comes from dairy plants in New Zealand. The cost of production has gone up, as did the seperation of whey/casein process. These factors combined equals the reason for why the cost of whey protein has gone up.

The NZ dollar is at a 22 year high against the USD which also pushes your prices up.

[Stevo1313]

ok the reason why milk/food prices are raising is because we are now using much more ethanol in gas then we used too, which is made from corn. Because of this farmers have been switching crops from say wheat, or other products to corn. Which means feed for cows and other animals have more then doubled....which means milk/meat is more expensive

[gymfreak713]

My only question is this: I understand how gas is imported, and so therefore price is subject to supply and demand on a worldwide scale. But our milk comes from our own dairy darmers. So why in the hell should it mirror the price of gas? I am assuming that it is because of higher cost to feed the animals which is due to higher costs of producing the food for them which is done by using gas powered machinery? Well, milk in itself can go up as high as it wants, I dont drink it. But Whey protein? Whey is too expensive as it is. This was a BYPRODUCT that was thrown away for so many years. I seriously hope that its price doesnt get too astronomical. I love my protein and its hard enough when you are spending $200 on food a month and another $200 on supplements.
Also, I realized I just wrote the word "our" when referring to milk. I forgot that this was a worldwide web site and so therefore some readers might live in Australia or instance. I apologize for the confusion, I was referring strictly to America and american milk prices.

[RelentlessChaos]

lol my parents already bitch about how much milk we go through and i think it's like $2.50 a gallon now. My family of 5 goes through at least a gallon a day.

same, if not more. i drink atleast a half gallon every two days. maybe a day

[KyGunator]

I thought about buying a cow too...but you can't milk them all year long, and you'd have to have her bred to have a calf (could help with beef) in order for her to make the milk....so ideally I'd need two or three and just cycle them....seriously thought about gettin some chickens tho. And maybe a few rabbits...

ya good idea get some rabbits too, that way u can have milk, beef eggs, chicken and carrots all year long

[Hardbody316]

went up 50 cents here since yesterday

[r_robert]

try milk powder then

[Hardbody316]

the reason they are raising the prices on milk and gas is because they know people NEED both of those things in their lives...so they can raise them all they want people WILL have to buy them

so bitch all you want you will still buy gas and milk