Factors forming consumer prices for dairy products

The problems of forming consumer prices of milk and dairy products have been studied. The structure of the final price for sold milk in Russia and the distribution of income between the members of production and commercial chain have been considered. The analysis of the causes of price volatility for agricultural products in general and for milk and dairy products in particular has been given. The effect of the price of purchasing raw milk by dairy plants and the opportunities offered by milk processing directly on farms have been shown. The factors that constrain selling milk by agricultural enterprises of the Leningrad region in retail chains have been defined.