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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Has anybody every had the cheese from, I think, University of Washington, that comes in a can? Wonderful!
Since this has come around again, I’d say the gov should auction it off and use the money to build a wall on the southern border.
Yes, cheese can be frozen though it may make the texture more crumbly.
Maybe we could use it in catapults and lob it into North Korea.
Aging breaks down lactose I believe
Bernie Sanders?
We could send it to the Kurds so we could call them Cheese Kurds.
My town had 100% Democrat politicians who knew to the minute when the cheese handouts would be. It was always said they and their families and friends were the first in line.
“Whey” Nice cheesy pun! ;-)
I saw what you did there...
I remember 5lb blocks of (luscious) gummint American cheese in the 70s.... queso was not ‘invented’ until about 1983.
Government import restrictions, price supports, etc. (Govt. buys milk and makes "pasteurized processed cheese blocks" out of it).
> https://www.atr.org/steep-cost-dairy-programs-a7138
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/madness-american-milk-prices
well, there’s the solution! stick that cheese in a dark cellar and in 5 or so years, it’ll be worth 10 times as much :)
From “Repo Man”?
Yep - was a time when a lot of military qualified for the WIC program and were given cheese and other items...add crackers and I’ll take some of it off their hands....
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