Did We Run Out Of Cows??

rockhillmanor wrote:

midnightsadie wrote:
fuel cost drives the price of everything. watched oil drop $2.bucks a barrel on thurs so gas goes up .30 cents at the pump. figure that out? there not going to loose. oil is in control of every price out there.

Ethanol boom several years ago.
All my farmer neighbors yanked out their alfalfa/hay fields and planted corn to get rich quick.

Ethanol plants started going in all over. Locals started lawsuits to stop them from being built.

Thousands of acres now in corn. Surplus sitting in dryers and farmers loosing their butts. AND price of alfalfa and hay skyrocketing to all time high prices from the few farmers that didn't jump on the ethanol band wagon demanding the high price because of lack of availability.

Citizens managed to shut down ethanol plants.
Opportunist corn farmers broke.
Thousands of horses go to slaughter because owners can't afford price of hay.

Yup it's hard to be a proud American these days. :(

And cold wet weather used many millions of gallons of propane for driers last season, while profiteers continued record propane/ng exports- running the pipelines in REVERSE. Hence monster propane shortages and crazy prices last winter.

It's all interconnected ;)

midnightsadie wrote:
fuel cost drives the price of everything. watched oil drop $2.bucks a barrel on thurs so gas goes up .30 cents at the pump. figure that out? there not going to loose. oil is in control of every price out there.

Ethanol boom several years ago.
All my farmer neighbors yanked out their alfalfa/hay fields and planted corn to get rich quick.

Ethanol plants started going in all over. Locals started lawsuits to stop them from being built.

Thousands of acres now in corn. Surplus sitting in dryers and farmers loosing their butts. AND price of alfalfa and hay skyrocketing to all time high prices from the few farmers that didn't jump on the ethanol band wagon demanding the high price because of lack of availability.

Citizens managed to shut down ethanol plants.
Opportunist corn farmers broke.
Thousands of horses go to slaughter because owners can't afford price of hay.

Yup it's hard to be a proud American these days. :(

Super_Dave wrote:
Stopped by the store last night to pick up a gallon of milk so we could have some for breakfast this morning. The "off" brand was $5/gal. It kind of reminded me of growing up poor and my mom trying to sneak powdered milk by us. She would put it in a real milk carton thinking we wouldn't notice.

Hehehe...did that to my kiddos too. Difference is they nevah knew cause they were way too busy guzzling;. My mother tried powdered milk out on us a few time but err we wouldn't drink it and she found some other way to cut the budget: bean soup, anyone?:cool:

Super_Dave wrote:
Stopped by the store last night to pick up a gallon of milk so we could have some for breakfast this morning. The "off" brand was $5/gal. It kind of reminded me of growing up poor and my mom trying to sneak powdered milk by us. She would put it in a real milk carton thinking we wouldn't notice.

Worked for the major dairy producer in WA, OR, ID...the off brand is co-packed. Most of the milk is "pooled" meaning that the farms all sell into a local pool, if there is one around. Strangest part...Milk picked up from the farm on the 1st day of the month, on your table the second day of the month, the farmer doesn't know what the price of that milk is until the 15th of the following month due to the pooling prices....Amazing.

FYI: Out here in WA, all of costco's milk is Darigold just "re-branded". Safeway has their own plant, but buys their raw milk from Darigold. Smith Brothers use to have their own farms, now they buy raw milk from Darigold as well.

rockhillmanor wrote:
There really is no such thing as a real off brand as they would like us to think! :B

There are only so many milk bottling plants in the US.

ALL milk goes to them and all they do is change the label from Bordon's to Thrifty Milk during the bottling run. One farm may supply the name brand as well as the 'off' brands. Heck all the tankers pull in and the bottling plant spits out 12 different labeled milk bottles!! :B

My Dad always bought house brand light bulbs. He always said that they were either GE, Westinghouse or Sylvania since they were the only people making light bulbs at that time.

Super_Dave wrote:
Stopped by the store last night to pick up a gallon of milk so we could have some for breakfast this morning. The "off" brand was $5/gal. It kind of reminded me of growing up poor and my mom trying to sneak powdered milk by us. She would put it in a real milk carton thinking we wouldn't notice.

There really is no such thing as a real off brand as they would like us to think! :B

There are only so many milk bottling plants in the US.

ALL milk goes to them and all they do is change the label from Bordon's to Thrifty Milk during the bottling run. One farm may supply the name brand as well as the 'off' brands. Heck all the tankers pull in and the bottling plant spits out 12 different labeled milk bottles!! :B

Can't be fuel. It hasn't changed much in 7 years.

Stopped by the store last night to pick up a gallon of milk so we could have some for breakfast this morning. The "off" brand was $5/gal. It kind of reminded me of growing up poor and my mom trying to sneak powdered milk by us. She would put it in a real milk carton thinking we wouldn't notice.

wbwood wrote:

SWMO wrote:
We were shocked yesterday when we went replenish the milk supply. Gallons over $5 and a quart of creme $7+?????

You need to shop somewhere else...we can get a gallon of milk in the $3 price range...

I can't afford to drive to NC.:B

SWMO wrote:
We were shocked yesterday when we went replenish the milk supply. Gallons over $5 and a quart of creme $7+?????

You need to shop somewhere else...we can get a gallon of milk in the $3 price range...