On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:00:55 AM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:
> >Nancy Young wrote:
> >>
> >> I did look at the price of powdered milk once, don't know why because
> >> I loathe the stuff, but it was quite pricey.
>
> Back when I was a widdle wun (the 1960's), powdered milk
> was about 1/2 the price of regular.
>
> We'd (or rather my parents) would add it to macaroni and
> cheese and it was ok for that.
>
> About a decade ago I priced it at the market and saw, like
> you did, that it's more expensive.
>
> I have absolutely no idea why and how this was and is
> the case. There's so much gov't price fixing and support
> in milk pricing that there's plenty of questions
> involved...

It might also be supply and demand. If there's little demand for
powdered milk (from consumers; obviously industrial food operations
use a lot of it), the price would tend to rise.

Cindy Hamilton