You go to the supar market to pick up a few things, when you pick up a gallon of milk,  $4.00.  $4.00 for a gallon of milk, that is ridiculas.  Where does all that money go to?  If dairy farmers make that much money then why are they always complaining.  The truth is the dairy farmers don’t get paid much at all, they get paid $18.00 for every hundred pounds.  To help you understand how little this is, there is eight pounds in one gallon of milk.  Also, milking is not as cheap as it is cracked up to be.  An average cow to buy cost around $1800 to $2000 to buy.  On top of the price of the cow you have what the cow eats, the maintence of the machinery, your time and labor.  Each cow eats about 24 pounds of grain a day, and at grain costing $13.00 per hundred pound, each cow eats about $7.00 a day and an average farmer has around 60 cows, the average cost of grain for an average farmer is $420.00 a day.  Farmers spend on average about 6 hours in the barn feeding, milking, cleaning, and keeping things up to code.  I intervud a local farmer and his wife, they both had some frusturating things to say “with how low milk prices is and the amount of times I get swated with a wet and dirty tail, this job just isn’t worth it”.  Try helping out, if you have a local farmer that lives by you, ask them if you can by directly from them a gallon or so every few days, it will mean less money you have to spend, and the real thing is much better.  So try to cut out the middle man, because that is who is making all the money.