With inflation, the price of groceries has been rising, and that can causing some people to change their eating and spending habits.

""I buy a lot less milk, I'll buy smaller quantities for the most part. If I do need it, it's for a very short period of time. I try not to really make anything that has it, that much, often. But yeah, no, I haven't been buying it as much," said Shopper
Kodie Sweet. 

The USDA sets milk prices, so the local dairy farmers aren't getting rich off of their product.

" So here's the problem, when the USDA uses their formula to set the price of our product there are zero costs of production involved in that setting of that price," Maggie Curtis, whose family has a dairy farm, said. 

With high gas prices, those production costs have only increased.

"It maybe 5 dollars in the store, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 2 bucks for that gallon of milk and I'm bearing all of the costs, like I said including shipping it from my farm to the milk plant," said Curtis.

So is there a possible solution?

"My only solution that I can honestly come up with is more local processing. . . That's the closest answer I have is to return more control of our products to our farmers and remove the federal governments rules, regulations and quite frankly burden from us," Curtis said.