How much is a gallon of milk ?

[ljay42]

You can't milk a soy.

[Twinsmommyy]

3.00 a gallon here in Northern California.

[mbmouse]

I paid $3.49 today at Whites for whole milk.

[Barngodess]

What a wide variety of prices ! thanks to everyone that posted.

Melissa

[seanpecor]

At $3.49/gallon a grocery is selling milk at a loss to get people in the door to buy other products (i.e., it's a "loss leader"). If you think $4 or more is too much to pay for a gallon of milk then you might try running a dairy farm sometime. Particularly now with diesel fuel costing 100% more than it did just 3 years ago. The reality is that - without all of the federal farm subsidies given to struggling farmers - your milk and most of your food would cost even more. As far as I'm concerned, people don't pay enough for their damn food right now. That's why so much agriculture has been outsourced to cheap labor countries. The average item of food travels 1,100 miles before it reaches your table. How crazy is that? It seems to me that the average person would flip out if they had to pay $6 for a gallon of milk but then that same person would think nothing of paying $3 for a cup of Starbucks coffee. Ugh.

Locally produced Vermont milk will likely be more expensive then the "generic" grocery brands because large groceries get large quantities of milk from huge producers further West who can beat Vermont farmers on wholesale prices due to the economies of scale. But unless your taste buds are dulled you can really taste the difference in quality. Local is so much better.

Sean

[Barngodess]

First of all, I TOTALLY agree that quality makes a difference, and I AM willing to pay a premium for good quality. I am only saying that milk prices , .... actually most ALL food prices have tripled in just a short amount of time. Everything has tripled, accept our paychecks. They remain the same. So I am complaining about rising costs, just as YOU are complaining about rising fuel costs. My heating oil has tripled here this year.

I was born and raised on a farm in southwestern Ohio. My Father farmed the land and raised hogs for a living. So I am no stranger to the costs of farming, and I know that a person farming will NOT get rich. In fact, many a farm has gone belly up, because it just doesn't pay. Hence, the govt. subsidies .

I too am afraid that more and more of our food will be outsourced to countries like China. You do know, that China is getting into the dairy business ? What do you want to bet, in 5 years we will have imported milk here, from China ? I hate to see what's happening to our farmers , and I really don't like how everything is being outsourced overseas.

I think people are going to have to start living closer to the earth. Meaning, we need to rely less on others for our staples.

Melissa

[studedude]

We pay between $3.00 & $4.00 in suburban Chicago for a gal milk and about $14.00 for a gal of Starbucks Double Shots. Why does nobody complain about that? Maybe they should sell milk in 8 oz cans.

[shadowxx]

We pay about 2.99 for two percent at Walmart but some brands are more and of course whole milk is more. The small stores charge close to 5 dollars for milk so we don't go there unless it is an emergency.