The proposed Connecticut milk pricing law for milk establishes two price collars. The general concept is as follows …. Wholesale fluid milk prices will be limited to no more than 140% of the raw fluid price, and retail prices will be limited to no …

Commission promulgates. Those details will include the price collar rates at wholesale and retail, the raw milk price that the … wholesale collar is applied to (for example, we propose using the average price of raw milk used by processors for products … them. Understand, however, that the bulk of all fluid milk marketed in Southern New England is processed by three …

retail price collar be set at 130% and that it be applied only to private label milk. In this briefing paper we will justify … the setting of the retail price collar at 130% and suggest that the collar be applied to all brand milk. …

The basic proposition of a fair share milk pricing policy program is the following: Retail milk prices during the low … less milk. The farm level pricing problems of farmers in the Northeast is exacerbated by inter regional distortions in the …://www.fmpc.uconn.edu). Throughout the raw milk price cycle farmers in the upper Midwest and far West are advantaged under current federal milk pricing …

Fluid milk market orders are routinely criticized by many because they force consumers to pay higher fluid milk prices …. The fluid milk processors through their trade group, the International Dairy Food Association, and the supermarket chains … New England. In fact, what one has is the pot calling the kettle black. Soon after the Dairy Compact’s demise raw milk …

Before one can talk about solutions to the “milk pricing problem” one needs to identify its many dimensions and then … with processors and retailers in milk marketing channels? Specifically, is it an increase in market pricing power by … it the importation of milk components and products from other countries? Is it the importation of dairy replacement …

regulations. Since 2002, Dr. Cotterill and I have done extensive research on milk pricing in southern New England, documenting the … relationship between retail, wholesale, and farm prices in the milk marketing channel. Today I am going to discuss milk prices and … margins at various levels of the marketing channel as well as the need for a market based pricing policy in Connecticut. …

received for raw milk. Consumers are always going to drink milk. The critical question is where is it going to come from? This … the truth. The organization and the performance of the farm to retail milk marketing channel and the role of state and …

critical need for the proposed milk pricing law and, as explained in this briefing paper, a need for a meeting the competition …There is substantial concern in the state about the economic health of our two remaining independent milk processors …, Guida-Seibert Milk Company, New Britain; and Marcus Dairy, Danbury, Connecticut. Some Connecticut farmers are also exploring …