It wasn’t all that long ago that the government was stock piling cheese, just so it could all be given away. Now they want butter?
The government purchase of butter may be along the same line as the cheese purchase. Price support.
Years ago when I was in the cold storage biz, we had truckload after truckload of butter (packed in something like 68 pound blocks) stored in the freezer....same freebie program as cheese.
Is that the same cheese Matt Farley eats down by the river?