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Subject Latest fiscal cliff warning: Milk prices could increase to $8 a gallon

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Scary to think of what the price of a gallon of organic milk would be...

Dairy is a staple of our menus.  Restaurants will have to raise prices too.
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When funds allow, we purchase organic milk, too.  My son prefers it.

Otherwise, we purchase Baremane's brand, it has a good flavor and sells for around $2.50 a gallon.
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I don't think I have ever seen that brand around here.  We always go organic with milk.  Only because we don't want our daughters to be subjected to all those hormones.  Girls are growing up faster these days, and I firmly believe it's at least partly due to all the growth hormones the cows are fed.
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It's [i]Bareman's[/i], a local company here in Michigan.  They do make the claim of having no artificial growth hormones in their products.
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Original Message The farm bill expired three months ago. Unless Congress passes legislation renewing federal support for agriculture programs, milk prices could spike to between $6 and $8 per gallon, according to some estimates.

Fifth-generation Weber County dairy farmer Ron Gibson is of two minds about the possibilities.

"It's really a double-edged sword. It would be nice to have $8 a gallon for milk. (Consumers) can't afford to do that long term," Gibson said. "The bigger concern we have is that it could kill demand for our product. How many people will quit buying milk and start buying something else?"

Milk is just part of the dairy market. If the price of milk goes up, so goes the price of cheese, ice cream, sour cream and other dairy products, he said.

Unless Congress resolves the stalemate over the farm bill by the end of the year, the federal government would have to follow a 1949 law that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to buy milk at roughly twice the current market price to maintain a stable market.

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