The government has been buying food boxes, restaurants have been reopening, and low cheese prices have driven up the export market.
Those are some of the main reasons wholesale milk prices have almost doubled in recent weeks – from a five-year low of $13-a-hundredweight to $24.
Wholesale cheese prices have tripled.
Policy analysts expect the soaring prices to moderate into the fall.
Farmers are being advised to use the growing return on their products to replenish cash reserves and pay off some debt.
Despite all of that going on in the background, customers aren’t expected to notice very much change in store prices.
