Milk was $6.08 a gallon tonight

[Neeley]

Yep, that's right. DH and I were doing our grocery shopping tonight and he spotted it - Barber's milk $6.08 a gallon at Wal-Mart. I wish I had my camera phone with me, I wanted so badly to take a picture of it to share with you all.

I just about passed out. I am so glad my family does not drink milk. If they did, I would be cutting them off.

[Persimmon Lace]

:surprise: I wonder how long it will stay that high? I wonder if people will continue to purchase milk at those prices.

[Cricket1]

Good Lord--that's outrageous!

[Missy]

ours was 4.23 today and I about fell over. i can't imagine!

[baxjul]

The only one that drinks milk here is dd, and I've been buying her the organic milk at Winn Dixie, the cost isn't that much different, and it doesn't have the hormones from the cows in it. I feel that it is healthier!

[Bethany]

Wow, we can get 1% for 3.15. I thought that was high considering it was 1.99 a year ago.

[accountantbyday]

Wow, we can get 1% for 3.15. I thought that was high considering it was 1.99 a year ago.

Us too. I have 5 coupons for free milk with the purchase of 4 Post/Nabisco products. I think they might come in handy if my area follows that trend!

[Domestic Gal]

The trend will follow. My husband works for a dairy and demand is high and supply is low right now with school starting. They said that is will be this way until March or April.
I had to pay $3.28 a gallon for 1% the other day.
I have been going kroger everyday to see if they have any reduced priced milk so I can load up the freezer. I got some last month for .25 a gallon. Bought all 8 that they had but they are gone now.
The kids are going to have to start having pancakes and waffles for breakfast so that the milk consumption is not so high.

[frugalfarmwife]

The sad thing is that the farmers finally did get a raise, our friends who produce a high quality milk get a whole whopping $16.41 per hundred pounds of milk. If you average it at 8 pounds to the gallon thats $16.41 for 12 and a half gallons, or $1.31 a gallon. They are finally making a small bit of profit for the first time in a long time.

The expenses on a dairy are so high too. Fuel, electric, tractors, taxes, vet, etc, then they see what little is left.

I hate to see prices raise so much for those of you that use a lot of milk.

kj

[jinx]

WOW! I thought that the 3.49 I paid the other day was high. That was for the store brand. Had to go to the local Shaws, they tend to be a little higher the the Market Basket I usually shop. There is a local dairy that sells milk in glass bottles that sells for well over 3.00 per quart that is with a deposit on the bottle, but that is sold a trader joes, and wholefoods.

[latierra84]

whoa. ours it 3.99 on sale and it hurts me to buy it every week. its normally somewhere around 4.29

[LynnLC]

Milk here is $3.19 - reg. price

[Marie78]

I did our grocery shopping last night and the store brand milk that I buy was $3.19, the store discount was 70cents off, so we saved a little. It's still more expensive than it has been! My fiance and I dropped to one gallon a week now, we were drinking two.

[DixieJ]

The last I bought was $3.05 for a gallon of store brand 2% milk. I'm just wondering if people will refused to pay that much for milk, will some of it sit on the shelf and go bad. Probably not, I suspect a lot of people will grumble but go ahead and pay it. I'm glad we're not big milk drinkers-a gallon last us a week.

Dixie Jean

[Jaded]

We're selling a lot of nonfat dry milk. People are mixing it half and half with regular milk to save money. I'll probably start doing the same soon. I can't afford this much longer.

Boy, Carnation is going to make a killing off these high milk prices by selling powdered and evaporated milk! LOL