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Should the local price of dairy products be regulated?

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  • Should the local price of dairy products be regulated?

A favourite fundraiser, cheese rolls, is going off the menu for education providers as soaring dairy prices make them too expensive to produce.

Catering quality grated cheese was $23 for a 5kg bag last year, but it is now $47.80. Sliced
bread had increased from $2 a loaf to $3.90.

Dunedin Community College food and beverages tutor Geoff Palenski says increased dairy prices had cut the profit margins for many fundraising activities.

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