Since November of 2002, the Food Marketing Policy Center has periodically conducted price surveys of milk in New York …, when coupled with data on the underlying cost of the raw milk, have shown that milk channel firms are continually charging … unconscionably excessive prices for milk. While it was originally believed that both processors and retailers were exercising market …

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 …

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 …

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

For dairy farming the core of the sustainability issue is regional differences in cost of production and prices … received for raw milk. Consumers are always going to drink milk. The critical question is where is it going to come from? This … often ignored and assumed to be unimportant for the survival of the Northeast dairy industry. Nothing could be further from …

No. 1. I have been asked by John Vetne, attorney for White Eagle Milk Marketing Federation and other interested parties …, to analyze the impact of proposed changes to pool qualification rules on pricing conduct and the economic performance of … markets in Midwestern milk marketing channels. Proposal Number 2 at this Hearing would tighten pool performance standards by …

federal milk market order executive and for the past 15 years a consultant on over-order pricing regulations. Mr. Ross wrote … the 1990s. The group discussed the following milk pricing options: overorder pricing by a marketing agency-in-common of … program for dairy farmers, the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board, the New York price gouging law, and the price collar and …

testimony and to address the Committee on an important issue today. Milk pricing in New England and Massachusetts has been … fluid milk prices. Note also that outside of the Dairy Compact period there was considerable volatility in raw milk prices … contentious for several years because of two interrelated issues. Those issues are of low milk prices to New England farmers and …

milk prices in New England are as much as a dollar per gallon above supply costs (Cotterill et al. 2002; Mohl 2002). Yes …, consumers are paying too much; but farmers are also receiving too little. They are experiencing the lowest milk prices in 25 … years. Similar problems have persisted in the Northeast dairy industry for at least a decade. In 1991 the New York State …

aided in answering several questions regarding milk pricing in the region, such as whether prices varied amongst states …Last November, the Food Marketing Policy Center conducted a survey of retail milk prices in Connecticut, Massachusetts …, channels, chains, and types of milk. Results of The November study indicated that milk prices in New England were high relative …