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     Kommentar till en text av JOAN MACDIARMID
Ärende: cheese production!
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Hey Joan!
-> 
->  > (1) I live in a dairy state; NY is second only
->  > to Wisconsin in amount of cheese produced, I
->  > think. Good cheese, too!
-> 
->  HN> I think I have only seen NY Cheddars, but NY is 4th  in cheese
->  HN> production behind Wisconsin25.9%, California 23.1%, and Idaho 8.4%,
NY
->  HN> comes in at 7.3% according  to 2006 statistics.( source: USDA,
Dairy
->  HN> Products Annual Summary)
-> 
->  Idaho?! Wonder why? I am not surprised about California
->  as it is so big and has so many ecozones. Anyway, I
->  am covered by my prudent "I think"! Anyway, my point
->  was that NY does produce a lot of dairy stuff,
->  apparently efficiently, so local prices might well
->  be lower.
-> 
I have no idea why Idaho is big in cheese...I would have thought that
Oregon (the entire tillamook area is practically made of cheese [g]) would
have come in in the top 4 as well. All I've ever seen out on this coast
from NY is cheddars, primarily white cheddars that are quite good. 

->   > (2) I have a good, competitive grocery market
->  > here. Wegman's has a policy of always having
->  > its milk at the lowest feasible price, to bring
->  > people in so they will buy the pricier stuff,
-> 
We have nothing as good as Wegman's out here...I get envious when I hear
you east coasters talking about double coupon days and such..couponing is
not so well established here and most of the markets do very little of it
overall. 

->  > (3) I bet Georgia also has something like
->  > Alabama's Milk Price Control Board, setting
->  > minimum prices to ensure a certain minimum
->  > profit for the dairy farmers. I haven't
->  > heard of anything like that in NY.
-> 
->  HN> I thought it was a federally run program bur perhaps each state has
->  HN> it's own as well. A good place to look is: www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/
-> 
->  There probably are some federal programs, but I
->  find a lot of variation in states I have lived
->  in. Milk is apparently a very political item.
->  Not as much as alcohol, at least. I would think
->  it interesting to compare every state's alcohol
->  laws (bare bones description)! And those change
->  over the years...Alabama is not the state I moved
->  away from in 1976 in that sense!
-> 
I've lived in more states than most...but have not paid very much attention
to milk prices for the most part. We get most of our dairy in the form of
yogurt, and cheese...and when we buy milk it's in quarts or smaller.
chat with you soon
ha
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