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Article: Cold glass of reality: Pricier milk; High demand for mozzarella and other cheese coupled with low production during a hot summer could add 28 cents per gallon.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1999
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1/3 Pizza lovers, confess. It's your fault - well, partly your fault - that families all over America will pay more for milk next week. Quite a bit more, in fact.
Bessie, better 'fess up, too. Just because it was blistering hot last summer doesn't mean that you and your girlfriends could just lie around in the pasture, not producing enough milk.
Milk drinkers, this is the story: Because of heat-stricken cows and ravenous cheese eaters (all over America, not just the Wisconsin variety), you could pay as much as 10 percent more - an additional 28 cents a gallon - for milk next week.
Industry experts say that would be the largest retail ...