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Article: Why are milk prices surging? Say cheese! Some shoppers are seeing hikes of 40 cents per gallon this week.(USA)(For The Love Of Pizza)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 8, 1999
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Got Milk?
If not, it may cost you a lot more money than usual to get it over the next couple months. In fact, those innocuous little jugs in the dairy aisle have practically become White Gold as prices in many cities jumped as much as 40 cents a gallon this week. It's one of history's biggest hikes.
What's behind the outrageous leap? Well, many things, actually: everything from this summer's heat waves, which sapped cows' milk output, to Americans' growing penchant for pizza - and the cheese that tops it. With more milk being made into cheese, there's less to drink. And now there's a run on milk.
So people may be harrumphing in the grocery ...