In > Nancy Young > writes:

>> 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..

>I figure do the math and see how much milk it would make when
>reconstituted. In the end it's probably quite a bit cheaper
>than fresh milk.

You'd think so, and again, that was the case
a, err, well, half century ago.

But no more. The powdered milk, per quart equivalent,
is more expensive nowadays.

(At least in the multiple areas I've checked. Given
the very convulted price fixing, etc., there might
be sections of the country which are different).



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