Milk pricing is nutty.

I was a licensed milk hauler in maryland at one time. My job is to measure the amount of milk being collected at the farm. Whatever number I put on that clipboard with the measurement and license number is what that farmer will be paid today not a penny more not less as set by the Coop who determines the price in this case Dairyman's near Skyesville.

There is a whole range of products possible from milk and it's too broad to get into here. At the end of the day there is a price on that gallon of milk on down. It is good to give the producers a nice income on the milk they produce but they always have gotten the shaft. Did not change then and will not change now.

I understand that milk producers have pretty much ceased to exist along the canada border after tarrifs were imposed making American sourced milk almost three times what Canadian milk is in their stores on the other side of the line. At some point there will be a shortage of milk. It is already apparent when my old milk carrier has now started to use sleeper trucks with the tank trailers to drive farther to get the milk to Baltimore. Once you load milk into a tanker, you are on the clock to get it there in a timely manner. I think about 14 hours. Not more than that otherwise it's spoiled, throw it away in a field.