First there is a floor price on milk. Milk cannot legally be sold below that floor price to consumers.
Farmers are prohibited from selling fresh milk direct to consumers. It's illegal. Period. They can't gift it either. It has to go to a transformer to be mixed with, homogenized and pasteurized.
Dairies and cheese makers, with the proper license, buy fresh milk in bulk to be transformed.
Since yogurt, or cheese, is not milk, there is no floor price. Somehow this often cause the transformed product to cost less than the raw ingredients (milk) that goes into it if you were to purchase that milk as a consumer.
And of course, you can only buy pasteurized, homogenized milk, which is an entire other problems.
This is the case in Quebec, Canada. Other provinces have different but similar laws. The dairy industry is the only one that is protected in such a way, hence why OP commented how crazy the industry is here, as nothing else work that way.
First there is a floor price on milk. Milk cannot legally be sold below that floor price to consumers.
Farmers are prohibited from selling fresh milk direct to consumers. It's illegal. Period. They can't gift it either. It has to go to a transformer to be mixed with, homogenized and pasteurized.
Dairies and cheese makers, with the proper license, buy fresh milk in bulk to be transformed.
Since yogurt, or cheese, is not milk, there is no floor price. Somehow this often cause the transformed product to cost less than the raw ingredients (milk) that goes into it if you were to purchase that milk as a consumer.
And of course, you can only buy pasteurized, homogenized milk, which is an entire other problems.
This is the case in Quebec, Canada. Other provinces have different but similar laws. The dairy industry is the only one that is protected in such a way, hence why OP commented how crazy the industry is here, as nothing else work that way.