Milk prices could benefit from the slingshot effect

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THE Price Cycle.There are a few dairy market watchers who doubt the existence of price cycles in our industry, but most folks have become convinced that high milk prices provide both the signal and the wherewithal for farms to grow milk production. When 40,000 farms make independent production decisions, it isn't uncommon to over-supply the market, leading to a subsequent price reduction. We have been going through such a cycle since 2014.Space scientists use something called a "slingshot effect" to help launch satellites into deep space. They will carefully manipulate the spacecraft near a large planetary object, and the gravitational pull will alter the path and speed of the satellite,shooting it on its way. The closer they fly the object to the planet, the greater the effect.