Milk: An Inelastic Good

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Back in 2014, milk prices were driven up by growing demand from middle-class consumers in North America, Asia, and other markets. As an effect of this demand increase, dairy farmers "aggressively" expanded their herds so they could better fit the new demand for milk and have a higher quantity. Also, since the demand was high, the dairy farmers had to increase the price. The best reason for this is that the farmers wanted to meet equilibrium for milk, and to do so, they had to increase the price so fewer people would be willing and able to buy milk. This would then cause the shortage to decrease. Even though milk is an inelastic good, its demand will still shift left if price increases, just not by much. In recent years, China, Russia, Venezuela,

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