. 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 …Fluid milk market orders are routinely criticized by many because they force consumers to pay higher fluid milk prices …

, Guida-Seibert Milk Company, New Britain; and Marcus Dairy, Danbury, Connecticut. Some Connecticut farmers are also exploring … economic activity in the state that would be lost if dairy farms and processing shift west. Recent retail pricing patterns in … critical need for the proposed milk pricing law and, as explained in this briefing paper, a need for a meeting the competition …

with other dairy policy initiatives and how it addresses a new dairy pricing problem – excessive market power in the fluid … milk marketing channel this paper is for you. The last two questions and answers are the MUST READ section of this paper …

Our recent meeting provided a factual basis for analysis of alternative milk policies. We analyzed the cost of … relation to costs, that the retailers net profit margins are excessive, and that consumers, if anything, pay too much for milk … milk prices when raw milk prices are low. Most conference participants, however, rejected the New York price gouge law as a …

Agrimark then other non Agrimark farmers and cooperatives might not be able to sell milk to Hood. On this point let us hope … that Justice exercises similar concern on the current Hood, National Dairy Holdings merger where vertical foreclosure will …

I surveyed milk prices in 195 grocery stores in southern New England and neighboring areas of New York with four … University of Connecticut graduate students two weeks ago. The average price for milk in Connecticut supermarkets was $3.05 per … gallon. Yet dairy farmers are suffering because of the lowest prices for their product in 25 years - $1.06 per gallon in …

Interest and Private Economic Power: A Case Study of the Northeast Dairy Compact. This paper contains a graphic deconstruction … issue of farm-to-retail price transmission in milk markets. Figure 1 displays the retail price and the farm level price for …

With the help of four University of Connecticut graduate students, two weeks ago I surveyed milk prices in 195 grocery … stores in southern New England and neighboring parts of New York. The average price for milk in Providence supermarkets was …, dairy farmers are suffering through the lowest prices in 25 years: $1.06 a gallon in October. Adding insult to injury …

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 …