2004:
- Gas, Milk Prices Give Market Heartburn
- Rising Dairy Prices Continue to Milk Consumers
- Tight Supply Pushes Milk Past $3 per Gallon
2007:
- Starbucks may have to raise prices as milk costs rise
- Got Milk … Money? It’s Not Cheap; U.S. Dairy Industry Under Pressure
- Milk Prices Expected to Rise 9 Percent
- Milk prices rise to record highs
- Milk Prices Could Soar to $5 a Gallon by Summer’s End
So sorry for the farmer, but any attempt to “prop up” milk prices is a direct robbery of the consumer who are also having to deal with the pop of the bubble. The only way to get through this is to start acknowledging the market before it starts destroying our system of evasions.