Milk Dumping In The 1930's Depression Era
Posted on 04/06/2020 12:43:59 PM PDT by gattaca
Hard to spin up a business in a week. Which is basically what you’ve got to do to acquire, package and distribute milk before it spoils.
Sadly, its the wrong product, in the wrong place.
I know a dairy that has production lines to pack in jugs, for supermarkets, and also small cups or cartons - for schools, airlines, etc… Supermarkets don’t want this type of packing.
the former production line is going 110% capacity, and they can’t get enough caps and labels, etc… from their supplier. While the latter is just sitting idle.
It means their business is still down 40%, and they can’t take all the milk their farmers produce.
Really depends on if a cheese plant or fluid milk plant is nearby.
Hate to see milk dumped.
Too bad they can't sell to some nearby hog farms.
Your post 11 was random, bizarre AND hilarious. If you pulled that from some movie or book I’m not aware of it.
Thanks for making my day friend. LOL!
I get weekly milk deliveries. The milk I get, although a touch more expensive, is local and superior than just about any milk I’ve had.
I have neighbors in both the rail and trucking industries. They are still working, yet they see shutdowns coming as freight becomes undeliverable due to factory and retail closings. Rail is starting to get clogged in urban classification yards and ditto for truck terminals. If freight cannot be accepted it sits and plugs the conduits.
Milk Dumping In The 1930's Depression Era
Whenever I see people acting irrationally against their own economic well being I assume one of two things is at work: they failed to prepare to take advantage of opportunity (i.e they lack the resources) OR the government inhibits them from taking advantage of opportunity
We have that kind of milk available at the store and the flavor is fantastic! They aren’t taking the bottle returns right now so it is back to plastic gallon jugs for now.
the prices of most food items where i am seem to be stable, except for eggs which went up a lot
I have neighbors in both the rail and trucking industries. They are still working, yet they see shutdowns coming as freight becomes undeliverable due to factory and retail closings. Rail is starting to get clogged in urban classification yards and ditto for truck terminals. If freight cannot be accepted it sits and plugs the conduits.
Always cheaper in the long run to rent the cow.
"More than 43 million gallons’ worth of milk were dumped in fields, manure
lagoons or animal feed, or have been lost on truck routes or discarded at
plants in the first eight months of 2016, according to data from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture."
Sounds like one of the first things companies would try to do is to get S&R areas opened so they can accept freight.
You may not be that far off.
Got information yesterday from another guy who works for Wisconsin Tissue Corp. Said that the warehouse is so full of TP and Paper Toweling they cant hardly find anywhere to put it.
I got cousins in the paper industry in Wis and they are all saying the same thing.
Now you tell me what the hell’s going on?
I can believe that, I am in the car business and getting anything shipped from the east coast is impossible at the moment.
Milk shortages are long gone from our stores. It probably helps that the Inland Empire CA still has plenty of Dairy’s. Although a lot have moved to Central CA and took advantage of the prices of their land being offered by Home developers. (And regulations)
one difference is that TP will keep, so it can be sold sometime, milk doesn’t keep so well.
I have a good friend that sells alfalfa, largely to dairies in the eastern US. Every city has to have a dairy within about 150 miles or so, but land is too expensive to buy and seed with alfalfa, so they buy trailer loads of it 600 miles away.
The distribution network is clogged right now. With reduced staffing almost everywhere off loads are taking longer. With general reduction in retail a lot of stuff just has no where to go. Meanwhile the brokers that arrange load transportation are into serious lowballing right now. Generally offering around 50 cents a mile, which is about half of what most folks need for a run to be profitable. When you lose less money sitting than hauling, things aren’t going to haul.
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