New York - Prices on Milk Set to Rise
New York - Across the state, prices for a gallon of milk will rise by next week, said a spokeswoman for the state Department of Agriculture and Markets.
The federal Milk Marketing Administrators’ office sets the price paid to farmers for fluid milk a month ahead of time, and that amount is going up because of higher demand for a number of dairy products, mostly cheese, in the past few months coupled with a poor harvest of feed crops in the West that has lowered supplies of raw milk, agriculture officials said.
New York’s law against milk price gouging requires the state agriculture department to set a “threshold” price for milk, roughly 200 percent of the wholesale price. That means consumer prices also go up.
