Posted on 04/06/2020 12:43:59 PM PDT by gattaca
Man, I used to love hitting the metal cow in the mess hall at breakfast after PT. And they even had a chocolate cow.
That’s just the problem though, it doesn’t save any family farms. There are almost no family farms left. Regulation and our socialist ag policies combined with lies like “economy of size” have turned almost all of our farms into businesses with outside investors that are subsidized slaves of the banking industry betting their entire existence on the price of a single commodity.
Do you suppose any of the billionaires have all of their money invested in a single stock? What happens to even the industrial giants that don’t shift quickly with the times and market demand?
Only a return to diversified family farms distributed across the country will ensure food security, end the socialist welfare nightmare that is American agriculture, and put the money back in American citizens pockets.
Government can be so worthless.
There are many constraints in the system; transportation, packaging, distribution. First you may have to divert the extra milk to a “bottler”, do they have capacity to handle 2x normal? Doubtful. Can the distribution channels handle this 2X volume? Probably not. Nobody builds a system that can handle the volumes that are being seen and they never will because it costs a lot of money.
Nobody realizes the grocery distribution system is strained during the Holidays- warehouses not big enough, not enough trucks or labor— they struggle every year and make it work. What we have seen is the Holidays on steroids for the last 4-5 weeks.
So I’m assuming you didn’t read the article...
agreed
Not ragging on you but I was taught this in HomeEc (really dating myself with that reference) 45 years ago. I guess this is why they took both HomeEc and Shop classes out of school. Force most everyone to heat and eat food instead of learning the finer points of cooking and home management.
I am sure it was considered sexist to divide boys and girls into these separate classes. But how hard would it have been to have both sexes in both classes?
The march to our demise has been going on for a long time. By taking both these items out of the current curriculum self sufficiency has been reduced.
I taught most of these basics to my own children so they are not completely useless in the kitchen/home.
This too shall pass.
Instead of throwing it all out, they might could give free milk to the neighbors and local townsfolk. Would be a blessing. Maybe some are doing that.
Raw milk is illegal most places.
Many of the milk processing plants are closed throughout the U.S. therefore they are not receiving milk from the farms. Cows must be milked therefore unless you want to buy raw milk at the farms there will soon be a shortage.
Nonetheless farmers are taking the brunt of it...
Wonder how people survived so many centuries without a processing plant.
Fresh milk is impossible to store, so I buy canned condensed milk. Storage life is one year or better. Powerdered milk is yuch! Canned milk assures me of good milk for making pancakes, cupcakes, biscuits and pouring on my cereal.
Same with fruit juice. I buy cans of it with a one year or better storage life.
They have no means to pasteurize it in an approved plant, have product tested, have it packaged in an approved plant and inspected and on and on...
Milk processing is a continuous flow process with volume-limited plants.
The price of one gallon of milk in my area has been between $.79 and $1.20 for the last 5 years.
Demand has declined due to closure of restaurants and schools. The dairies can’t process it, and the processors apparently don’t have enough of a market for it. Although it doesn’t make sense that there’s any shortage at all in the stores. Might it have something to do with the size of the batches efficiently processed?
Milk producers are bemoaning the drop in milk consumption while at the same time are ignoring the growing cheese market.
While I understand the short-term overproduction problem when the market is down when this passes milk producers need to retool their industry.
'One word. Cheese'
Here in Indiana there was a milk “shortage” 2 to 2.5 weeks ago, but in the last week WM, Aldi, and Meijer were all well stocked. I think the initial shortage was pure panic buying.
If you scrape the top of the milk off, that’s real dairy cream. If you take it off instead of mixing it in, the milk becomes almost skim...maybe 2%. And then you have real cream to put in your coffee, whip, put on warm raspberries from the garden...ooops, sorry, got lost in Gramma’s garden there!
we’re not buying into any of their NWO or WHO nonsense...so “they’re” gonna try to starve us and our farmers
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