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Article: Dairy prices near record
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- July 19, 2007
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n Demand soars for milk, cheese, ice cream.
By TERESA F. LINDEMAN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The price of milk may be at near-record highs, but Ed Brunton, of
Brunton Dairy in Beaver County, figures he was making more money four
years ago. There are the high fuel rates, the cost of milk bottles,
and don't even mention the price of filling 104 hungry bovine mouths.
"Feed has gone through the roof," he said. The story in the milk
aisle lately - and at the ice cream shop and most places using dairy
products - has been one of global economic forces at work. "It's
called supply and demand," said Ken Bailey, associate professor of
dairy markets and policy at Penn State University. ...