Can’t milk be stored as cheese?
Of course!................
Yes, but that takes time and equipment. And if the cheese makers are full up...
Someone should have bought it to be made into cheese then.
Market is working out the supply demand process here. Sometimes its harsh.
Cheese plants are running at full capacity. Local cheese factory is asking farmers to cut back on production.
Or powdered?
“Cheese production facilities can’t take advantage of the cheaper milk prices because they also don’t have space to keep refrigerated products such as cheddar and mozzarella cheese.”
The excerpt of the article says there is not enough refrigerated storage for it.
Seems like there should be some ready contingency plan.
I forget how much cheese is in federal storage in refrigerated caverns near Springfield, Missouri. Hundreds of millions of pounds I recall. Wonder what the shelf life on that is?
Up until about 1980 the US had massive stores of cheese in underground storage facilities. It was released by Reagan and given to low income needy people, who were grateful for it. “Government cheese” was a part of the response to the severe inflation from the Carter years.
No reason it couldn’t be done again. the caverns are still there.
And butter.
As it says above your reply: Cheese production facilities can’t take advantage of the cheaper milk prices because they also don’t have space to keep refrigerated products such as cheddar and mozzarella cheese.