Milk Pricing in the United States

Don P. Blaney, Alden C. Manchester

Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB761) , February 2001

Over the past 125 years, a complex system of both public and private pricing institutions has evolved to deal with milk production, assembly, and distribution. The pricing of milk in the United States is part market-determined, and part publicly administered through a wide variety of pricing regulations. This report examines the many facets of pricing milk as it moves from the farm gate to alternative users

Keywords: Milk, prices, dairy policy, milk products, dairy products, milk production, United States, dairy cooperatives, price supports, milk marketing, Federal milk market orders

In this report ...

Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Frontmatter (Title page, Contents, Summary), 55kb
• Introduction, 68kb
• U.S. Dairy Industry in Brief, 49kb
• How the Pricing System Evolved, 384kb
• The Milk Pricing System in the Future, 76kb
• Glossary, 53kb
• Information Sources, 48kb
• Appendix A: Federal Milk Marketing Order Price Formulas, 48kb
• Entire report, 439kb

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Updated date: February 28, 2001