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Make America Grate Again? There's 1.4 Billion Pounds Of Surplus Cheese In The U.S.
wbur ^ | Jan. 8, 2019 | Jeremy Hobson

Posted on 01/10/2019 3:11:59 PM PST by bgill

More than 900,000 cubic yards of cheddar, American and Swiss currently sit in cold storage across the United States, enough cheese to form a wheel the size of the U.S. Capitol building. The excess is the biggest the country has seen since the government started keeping track a century ago, and it's 16 percent larger than the cheese surplus of 2016 when the government offered to buy up $20 million worth of excess cheese... "Part of it is changes in the domestic use of that milk." Another factor is trade — "a self-inflicted wound," Novakovic says. And there is growing concern among experts the glut could grow larger under the Trump administration, with the White House's trade war with China and Mexico's tariffs on U.S. dairy exports. As of September, annual cheese shipments were down 63 percent to China and 10 percent to Mexico. "That disruption has been particularly difficult for the cheese industry, and Mexicans are great consumers of cheese," Novakovic says. "Mexico is far and away our biggest customer and of course one of the few foreign customers we can serve with a truck instead of with a boat.

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KEYWORDS: americancheese; cheddar; cheese; cheesesurplus; chese; dairy; milk; moose; subsidies; swisscheese; trumpsfault
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Love how the msm can turn everything into a very very bad thing and all Trump's fault. Just a few days ago, the msm was complaining there weren't enough dairy farms. Today, they're complaining they are producing too much milk and cheese.

Yet, we're still importing Mexican cheese.

Fine, give it to those starving fed government children. Win-win.

1 posted on 01/10/2019 3:11:59 PM PST by bgill
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Yes, give it to the families of furloughed Federal workers.


2 posted on 01/10/2019 3:13:46 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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I live near the border and whatever is in the new deal has 2 local dairies expanding.


3 posted on 01/10/2019 3:14:27 PM PST by tiki
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Cut the welfare payments back to the cheese manufacturing chain, and the market would take care of the problem.


4 posted on 01/10/2019 3:15:23 PM PST by PAR35
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Well past time to get the Feds out of the milk price control/subsidy racket.


5 posted on 01/10/2019 3:17:40 PM PST by Drago
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To: bgill

SNAP benefits.


6 posted on 01/10/2019 3:19:40 PM PST by seowulf
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If you’re giving it away I’ll take a wheel of extra sharp cheddar please.


7 posted on 01/10/2019 3:19:44 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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~5 lb/peep.


8 posted on 01/10/2019 3:20:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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Cheese is darn expensive in the stores, they are artificially propping up the price. I for one would love the price of cheese come down.


9 posted on 01/10/2019 3:20:53 PM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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Properly stored cheese cannot go bad. A 10-20 year old cheddar can be sold for $20+ per pound.


10 posted on 01/10/2019 3:21:50 PM PST by LukeL
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When the food stamp money runs out in February give out the cheese.


11 posted on 01/10/2019 3:22:39 PM PST by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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To: LukeL

Can it be frozen?


12 posted on 01/10/2019 3:22:41 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: bgill

Feed it to all the starving federal employees Cher is moaning about.


13 posted on 01/10/2019 3:23:10 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: bgill

Too much oil, too.


14 posted on 01/10/2019 3:24:10 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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National Anthem of the Democraps of the United States from the greatest band you never heard of from 1980 The Rainmakers - Government Cheese
15 posted on 01/10/2019 3:25:14 PM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: Clutch Martin

here here. Love the extra sharp cheddar.


16 posted on 01/10/2019 3:28:29 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: bgill

They forgot the cheese?


17 posted on 01/10/2019 3:31:29 PM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: bgill

This is what farm subsidies do.


18 posted on 01/10/2019 3:32:00 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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My grandparents got surplus cheese when I was a kid. Best cheese ever!


19 posted on 01/10/2019 3:32:16 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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20 posted on 01/10/2019 3:32:39 PM PST by TADSLOS (Confuse your doctor by putting on rubber gloves at the same time he does.)
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