dog food prices

[NeilKimbrel7]

Getting kind of ticked off. Seems like bags get smaller or prices get higher frequently. They claim they have higher cost. The last reason I heard the prices jumped was due to high corn prices. The price of corn has fallen, why doesn't the price of dog food?

[MES Kennels]

I agree. It's no different than human food prices. Fuel costs come down or commodity prices come down, but the end product never goes down in cost. The smaller bags really are what get me. They make a smaller bag and "lower" the price, but it's more expensive per pound. Pretty soon the biggest bag you'll be able to buy will be 20 lbs. haha

Interesting note: When corn prices went sky high the cost difference between low quality foods that have high corn content, and high quality dog foods with less or no corn, seemed to get smaller. I couldn't believe how expensive Alpo or Dog chow was compared to Diamond, Victor, Pride, etc.

[DIXIEDOG]

Getting kind of ticked off. Seems like bags get smaller or prices get higher frequently. They claim they have higher cost. The last reason I heard the prices jumped was due to high corn prices. The price of corn has fallen, why doesn't the price of dog food?

If that was the case the no grain foods wouldn't have gone up also....they have no corn.

[Casey Harner]

Gas prices

[Lone Pine Beagles]

Prices get too bad we'll all be picking up road kill!!

[Schag]

Getting kind of ticked off. Seems like bags get smaller or prices get higher frequently. They claim they have higher cost. The last reason I heard the prices jumped was due to high corn prices. The price of corn has fallen, why doesn't the price of dog food?

Seems like everything goes up but my paycheck! I agree with you about the dogfood prices. I think the price is going up, yet the quality is going down. The particular dogfood that I buy has gone up $8.00 in the last 5 years or so.

[Dayton Beagler]

My opinion is a 50# bad of feed was roughly holding at 13.00. Then about this time the foo foo poodle loving, heart bleeding liberals started yelling no corn and no soy, so that told the pet food makers hell we can now charge what we want because people are willing to feed their pooches gourmet. Yes and the redneck hunting types like us fell for it also.... Now we pay RODEO DRIVE PRICES FOR DOG FOOD even the lower end variety.

[NeilKimbrel7]

Getting kind of ticked off. Seems like bags get smaller or prices get higher frequently. They claim they have higher cost. The last reason I heard the prices jumped was due to high corn prices. The price of corn has fallen, why doesn't the price of dog food?

If that was the case the no grain foods wouldn't have gone up also....they have no corn.

I'm told it went up also because the animals in the dog food were fed corn.

[warddog]

The prices went up when the country had the bad year for the farmers growing corn with the drastic weather around the country. Some places had draught and some had floods to the point that the corn crop was devastated. This has been several years ago BUT the excuse raised the price on everything. Many of the slaughter houses I worked at were slaughtering hogs like no tomorrow because the folks raising them were saying it was costing them more to feed than they could sell them for. I worked a very small Mom/Pop slaughter that was loaded with hogs to slaughter every week because people were giving them hogs just to get rid of them. The local television channel even called to make a report on the cost affect of the corn prices. After that happened and the hogs were drastically lowered in numbers the following years pork prices went through the roof. Why? Well they stated that the depleting of them over the year or so the corn prices went sky high has now lowered the supply and the demand brings exorbitant prices that is being paid. Now, after all this caused the price of feed to sky rocket the BIG CORPORATE manufacturers got their foot in the door to raise prices for an understandable excuse by consumers and NOW it has not and will not come down. Once we as consumers allow ourselves to be fooled into paying higher prices those prices will become the norm regardless of the situation, UNLESS consumers DO NOT pay them. This takes us back to the discussion we have had numerous times about Dog food and how the industry manipulates of fleeces consumers through advertising, packaging and labeling. One other thing that most consumers do not understand is that Corporate American along with our own government manipulate the pricing of items. I have seen it when the price of milk was pretty cheap because there were numerous dairy farms with a vast supply. What happened was the Government BOUGHT out ALOT of the ole dairy cows as well as the milk. I worked at a Beef slaughter plant at that time in Michigan that was working numerous hours slaughtering Holstein dairy cows that they normally did not slaughter in those numbers from the government buy out. The milk that was bought out was used to manufacture cheese and If folks remember there was a time where the government had an abundance of government cheese commodity give aways. In my 30+ years of being on the inside and seeing of how this country operates it is no wonder that the middle class is shrinking. Corporate America buy and sell politicians regardless of party and folks continue to stick their heads in the sand and allow them to foster the political divide among us so as to implement the oldest tactic in the book. Divide and conquer. I leaned it way back when I served in the U.S. Army and ir is alive and well right now today. Now that the price of dog food has risen and folks continue to pay the exorbitant price for manufacturers hyped up products thinking they are buying much better than they actually are then they will continue to play that flute while the blind mice continue to follow.