One of my high school classmates is a life long dairy farmer. This is a
2-part blog he posted on Linked In.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-carpenter-5a01a910b_why-are-dairy-farms-dumping-milk-part-activity-6652616912771575808-S6ZA?fbclid=IwAR1PrgN5q2shkkQCPC-dIMu9wer4L0qnSbU--Gl6f2YMNn94EvsLF0sV2Mo
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-carpenter-5a01a910b_why-are-dairy-farmers-dumping-milk-part-activity-6652633195399442432-OxT8?fbclid=IwAR36BdNsFsfziz38pCcCLB1yxgUabn3KZWqGRwcQcaPvLLOPhvSHNGD_hpU
It seems weird to see empty store shelves and dairy farmers dumping
milk, but that's a confluence of related problems. People hoarding
bottled milk eat up the grocery store supply. Bottling plants can only
bottle so much per day. The export market disappeared overnight. Raw
milk that can't make it to the bottling plant and can't be exported is
sitting at the dairy, and they can only store it for 2 days.
On 4/13/2020 11:35 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Bad news for you pork lovers, Smithfield is closing some plants, and
warning it threatens our national meat supply. But on the other hand
I heard there is actually a bacon glut due to all the restaurant
closures, and that people were trying to figure out how to hoard all
the cheap bacon. So not sure who to believe. Not inclined to
automatically believe the CEO of a big meat processor. Also reports
of farmers dumping produce and milk because they can’t sell it.
Interesting, usually the worry is sick pigs, now it’s sick people.
*From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Mathew Howard
*Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2020 10:20 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
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I wish they had these charts per state or metro area, but I haven't
found that anywhere yet (not that I've spent a lot of time looking... )
The problem with this, is that it's pretty much just showing the NYC
curve at this point (since everything else is buried under those
numbers), and doesn't really give us a good picture of what's
happening in other parts of the country. I expect we're going to
follow along with Chicago here, which looks like it's probably just
getting started...
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