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The price of milk question is a tactic for gauging political candidates' familiarity with the lives of ordinary voters in the United States and the United Kingdom is to ask them to name the price of everyday items such as bread and especially milk.
The consumption of milk in the United Kingdom had been falling because of increased prices following the removal of government subsidies to producers in 1956. [1] [2] The slogan was devised to counter this drop in sales. [2] "Drinka pinta milka day" was coined by Bertrand Whitehead in 1958 and adopted by the Milk Marketing Board and Dairy ...
Lack of half-pint cartons, a product made by Pactiv Evergreen, has caused shortages in school cafeterias from California to New York of milk, which federal rules require as part of lunches.
These purchase prices are set high enough to enable dairy processors to pay farmers at least the support price for the milk they use in manufacturing these products. The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1501) mandated a support price of $9.90/ cwt , effective through December 31, 2007, when the program by law was scheduled to expire.
Oct. 31—WATERTOWN — Area school districts are scrambling for alternatives due to a national shortage of half-pint milk containers. The iconic boxy containers have been a school staple for ...
Milk is now available in a variety of sizes in paperboard milk cartons (250 mL, 375 mL, 600 mL, 1 liter and 1.5 liters) and plastic bottles (1, 2 and 3 liters). A significant addition to the marketplace has been "long-life" milk , generally available in 1 and 2 liter rectangular cardboard cartons. In urban and suburban areas where there is ...
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Half of a gill is a jack, or an eighth of a pint. [4] But in northern England, a quarter pint could also be called a jack or a noggin, rather than a gill, and in some areas a half pint could be called a gill, particularly for beer and milk. [5] [6] [7]