http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/31/business/wbmilk.php?WT.mc_id=glob_mrktg_lead

Some see the United States as another main source of additional milk supplies. International prices have now risen above the subsidized price of milk there, making it profitable for American dairies to export their milk. "There's a real opportunity for the U.S. to export without government support or subsidies," Goode said.

Hurray!  There's still a chance for America to take over the world - with their hormone laden, antibiotic infested milk.

:D  ::)

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-LIFE AFTER LOSS, Bob Deits

I hate what the dairy industry is doing to my country (New Zealand).

Just four years later, the farm is worth more than twice what he paid for it. Prices for dairy farms in New Zealand are soaring along with dairy incomes, thanks to a global milk boom.

"It feels really good," Irwin said. "It feels like we're going to be earning and be rewarded the way we should."

Grrrr. Rewarded for using up the country's best land which could have otherwise been used to grow food crops? Rewarded for overbreeding and overcrowding poor beasts to produce something which isn't even a digestible food?! Pffft.  :P

I didn't know Fonterra is the world's largest dairy exporting company. One more reason to dislike them. I don't think there are any smaller-scale dairy producers since giant Fonterra has swallowed them up. I'm no student of economics, but I think this can't be good - for the animals, the farmers or the economy.

"No one forecast this rapid shortage of milk," said Torsten Hemme, head of the IFCN center.

IS it a sudden shortage, or a further rise in levels of people's greed for dairy? Heh, I just realised that when I buy a big ol' bucket of soy latte from Starbucks, I'm paying for the rising cost of milk (on top of the extra 50 cents for soy milk) since the prices have gone up to cover that cost.  >:(

The average person in China now consumes more than 25 liters, or 6 gallons, of milk a year, up from 9 liters in 2000, according to IFCN. So while China is now one of the world's top milk producers, it is also the world's largest milk importer.

Woah. Even in a country whose population/genes have a high level of lactose intolerance, they're devouring this much each year? Weird, and sad.  :-\

Rising costs also hurt New Zealand's ability to increase production in response to rising demand. The country's sheep farmers, for example, are trying to convert to dairy, but there is a two-year waiting list for milking sheds, according to Peter Buckley, president of the Waikato Federated Farmers, which represents farmers in New Zealand's prime dairying area. Higher land costs are also making it more expensive to buy new pastures.

GOOD! There are too many already. And I don't believe milk should be cheap. As with so many other foods - if it's cheap for the consumer, it costs someone else (usually the animals).

I hate what the dairy industry is doing to my country (New Zealand).

Just four years later, the farm is worth more than twice what he paid for it. Prices for dairy farms in New Zealand are soaring along with dairy incomes, thanks to a global milk boom.

"It feels really good," Irwin said. "It feels like we're going to be earning and be rewarded the way we should."

Grrrr. Rewarded for using up the country's best land which could have otherwise been used to grow food crops? Rewarded for overbreeding and overcrowding poor beasts to produce something which isn't even a digestible food?! Pffft.  :P
I didn't know Fonterra is the world's largest dairy exporting company. One more reason to dislike them. I don't think there are any smaller-scale dairy producers since giant Fonterra has swallowed them up. I'm no student of economics, but I think this can't be good - for the animals, the farmers or the economy.

"No one forecast this rapid shortage of milk," said Torsten Hemme, head of the IFCN center.

IS it a sudden shortage, or a further rise in levels of people's greed for dairy? Heh, I just realised that when I buy a big ol' bucket of soy latte from Starbucks, I'm paying for the rising cost of milk (on top of the extra 50 cents for soy milk) since the prices have gone up to cover that cost.  >:(

The average person in China now consumes more than 25 liters, or 6 gallons, of milk a year, up from 9 liters in 2000, according to IFCN. So while China is now one of the world's top milk producers, it is also the world's largest milk importer.

Woah. Even in a country whose population/genes have a high level of lactose intolerance, they're devouring this much each year? Weird, and sad.  :-\

Rising costs also hurt New Zealand's ability to increase production in response to rising demand. The country's sheep farmers, for example, are trying to convert to dairy, but there is a two-year waiting list for milking sheds, according to Peter Buckley, president of the Waikato Federated Farmers, which represents farmers in New Zealand's prime dairying area. Higher land costs are also making it more expensive to buy new pastures.

GOOD! There are too many already. And I don't believe milk should be cheap. As with so many other foods - if it's cheap for the consumer, it costs someone else (usually the animals).

Yet the United States government is paying farmers not to grow crops.  How ridiculous!