That's very interesting... Are the reasons behind the price of milk common knowledge, and are people more willing to pay the higher price to support the local dairy farmers? At first glance, a fixed pricing scheme on milk would seem to have opposite the intended effect. If there are two local dairies supplying milk at exactly the same price, and one is superior to the other, who's going to buy the inferior product? Wouldn't consumer preference for the better product at the same price drive the inferior product out and discourage new competition to the established product?

In this case, why wouldn't it be more economically prudent for the government to eliminate fixed pricing and just ban foreign diary products?