same with dairy. A friend is a dairy farmer and the government PAYS him to dump tons of it so that they can inflate the cost of milk. He hates it but has no choice.
St. Benedict Abbey in Still River, MA, used to have a blue ribbon dairy herd, but no more. Same reason as your dairy farmer friend. And a Vt. dairy farmer, distant cousin of mine, hanged himself in his barn one afternoon...same reason.
I don’t believe milk has been dumped by government edict for many years. About 40+ years ago, when attempts were being made to get dairy farmers into a type of “labor union,” or collective bargaining organization, farmer-activists voluntarily dumped their own milk, and sometimes that produced by their un-cooperative neighbors. My late brother, then a Wisconsin dairy farmer, was involved in that movement, although he didn’t dump his milk or anyone else’s; and I’ve been associated with dairy farmer relatives nearly all my life, since I was a teen-age Wisconsin farm hand.