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Milk Could Go Up 60 Cents a Gallon (Put the blame right on cheese)
NBC News ^ | 2/18/14 | Ben Popken

Posted on 02/18/2014 4:14:21 PM PST by Libloather

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1 posted on 02/18/2014 4:14:21 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I think this calls somehow for more government intervention. Price supports and subsidies or something like that. </sarcasm>


2 posted on 02/18/2014 4:16:04 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Libloather

We can take some of the price pressure on milk off by drinking more beer. Beer is probably healthier for adults anyway.


3 posted on 02/18/2014 4:18:03 PM PST by buwaya
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To: glorgau

Milk prices fluctuate a lot. Higher prices make it worthwhile for more dairies to sell milk when other factors limit farm production. When farm production rises, prices fall but also more milk is sold. It’s not any big panic. Though if it ever did become a big panic we’d scarcely know it next to all the other things our dear liberal friends get all excited over.


4 posted on 02/18/2014 4:18:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you. See my page.)
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To: Libloather

It’s Bush’s fault!


5 posted on 02/18/2014 4:21:31 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Libloather

It’s the democrats war on children.


6 posted on 02/18/2014 4:22:16 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: Libloather

Blame cheese.

"Not Wensleydale!"


7 posted on 02/18/2014 4:23:55 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Libloather
Coming soon to a cheese shop near you.


8 posted on 02/18/2014 4:26:07 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They have cows in China don’t they? Can’t they make their own cheese? Are they totally helpless? They’re sending rockets to the moon and building aircraft carriers, but they can’t raise cows?


9 posted on 02/18/2014 4:31:29 PM PST by virgil
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I do notice the mention of China. Chinese diets are not typically high in dairy. Lactose intolerance is a widespread condition in the Orient, hand in hand with this. This does sound odd.


10 posted on 02/18/2014 4:35:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you. See my page.)
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To: glorgau

Seems like a trial balloon as milk and dairy products are heavily subsidized by the Governments (state and fed).

A 60 cent jump in milk would surely have to be at the blessings of Obama.


11 posted on 02/18/2014 4:41:40 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Standardization is an Evolutionary dead end.)
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To: virgil

Not a lot of cows in China.
Oddly enough they do have considerable marginal grassland/pasturage in many parts towards central Asia that maybe could be used for ranching.


12 posted on 02/18/2014 4:43:09 PM PST by buwaya
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To: COBOL2Java

Wensleydale is a premium cheese. Its certainly not cheap here.
And its pretty good too. Wallace is quite right to be apprehensive.


13 posted on 02/18/2014 4:46:36 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Libloather

Did anyone see a cheese shortage? Was anyone denied Velveeta dip during the Super Bowl? No, I didn’t think so. This is all hoopla and price manipulation.


14 posted on 02/18/2014 4:48:00 PM PST by bgill
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To: buwaya

Far away from the regions where most Chinese live, though. They’ve been buying American milk. And American dairies have been happy to sell to them. If this keeps up, there will be more dairies in the USA. We could do worse.


15 posted on 02/18/2014 4:48:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I could be wrong, but I have a faint recollection of hearing that lactose-intolerant people can eat cheese without lactose-related problems.


16 posted on 02/18/2014 4:51:06 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Libloather

Then in responding to market demands they will produce more milk, right?


17 posted on 02/18/2014 4:52:11 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: bgill

is there any real cheese in Velveeta?


18 posted on 02/18/2014 4:53:51 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: DuncanWaring

Come to think of it I have heard that too. Cheese cultures tend to convert lactose to more digestible sugars.

I’d think the cheese would be produced here and then shipped to China. It would be more economical. States like Wisconsin must be happy.


19 posted on 02/18/2014 4:55:42 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you. See my page.)
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To: buwaya

Yes, but beer emits CO2.

As a carbon emitter Beer is killing the planet


20 posted on 02/18/2014 4:56:39 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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