Updated at 10:36 a.m., Monday, June 25, 2007
Big Island wholesale milk price hike starts Sunday
Advertiser Staff
Big Island consumers will begin paying more for milk when a 26 cents a gallon wholesale price increase takes effect Sunday. The state-mandated increase is meant to offset rising labor, feed and insurance costs at the Big Island's three remaining dairies.Currently, Big Island dairy farmers get a fixed $2.28 per gallon for their drinking milk. That's the wholesale price paid to farmers. The state last raised the wholesale price of Big Island milk by 25 cents a gallon in 2005, the first such increase in 13 years.
