Bird flu infected California cows. Why didn’t milk prices spike like egg costs did?
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Bird flu infected California cows. Why didn’t milk prices spike like egg costs did?
People might accept a price hike to buy specialized milk or cheese from a small farm with a few hundred cows, Sumner said. But for the broader market, California competes with other dairy states ...
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Bird flu infected California cows. Why didn’t milk prices spike like egg costs did?
While the virus also spread to dairy cattle, the outbreaks didn’t seem to boost California milk prices. A group of UC Davis economists recently wrote that though California produces more than 15 ...