If high gas prices aren’t enough to get you down, how about rising dairy prices? Ice cream is one of the products expected to go up in cost with expected expensive milk prices this summer. Dairy farmers are happy, but ice cream sellers may be forced to pass the cost on to consumers. Other contributing factors, according to the National Ice Cream Retailers Association: “a cyclone that reportedly wiped out the vanilla crop in Madagascar, the world’s leading producer” and “political unrest in West Africa, a major supplier” of chocolate. Two annual free cone days are coming up next week, so get your freebies while you can: Ben & Jerry’s on April 27th and Baskin-Robbins on April 28th.