High milk prices
4/24/2014 4:30:59 PM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
AFFECTED AREAS:
Alaska
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Mississippi
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
Start Date: 4/20/2014
- End Date: 10/19/2014
High feed prices from the 2011-12 drought in the Great Plains kept farmers from expanding their herds, pushing milk prices up to $25.30 per hundredweight in April and keeping them high at $25 per hundred pounds weight in October.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pa.), Oct. 19, 2014
A number of factors are involved in the surge in milk prices in the U.S., including historic high dairy exports and the drought in California limiting hay and forage production.
Bellingham Herald (Wash.), April 20, 2014
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