I’ve “upgraded” my bimonthly gallon of the white stuff several times over the last 30 years and for at least the last 10 I’ve been fairly disappointed.
Consolidation within the dairy industry seems an obvious place to lay the blame.
I’ve flirted with the notion of paying $10/pint for fancy unpasteurized hippy-milk, but honestly I’m just afraid I’d end up liking it. Although the current bird flu situation has given me new excuses.
The quota system Canada uses seems interesting. I’m a fan of both pasteurization and small farms, which currently doesn’t seem to be an option where I live…
Also I love learning about weird measurements:
Ever since Congress passed the Dairy Act in the 1980s, farmers have been required to pay 15 cents per hundred-weight of milk (equivalent to a little less than 12 gallons) toward industry promotion programs overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA.