# Milk Check Outlook: High Milk Prices Won’t Look as Good as in the Past | Farm Bureau Intel Markets | American Farm Bureau Federation

> Former AFBF chief economist Roger Cryan argues that the pandemic reshaped consumer demand toward food and goods for the home, leaving manufacturing and transportation struggling to catch up. He suggests that conventional forecasting models are unreliable for dairy markets in 2022. The column frames high milk prices as unlikely to look as strong as in past years.

- Date: 2022-01-24 · published 2022-01-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/43305-milk-check-outlook-high-milk-prices-won-t-look-as-good-as-in-the-past-farm
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

If demand shifts and supply-chain bottlenecks persist, dairy and feed costs may stay elevated while milk price strength fades. Buyers should expect less upside in milk prices than recent highs suggest.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: neutral

## Sources

- fb.org: https://www.fb.org/intel/markets/milk-check-outlook-high-milk-prices-wont-look-as-good-as-in-the-past

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