{"id":27270,"date":"2016-06-06T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=27270"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:01:41","slug":"us-cheese-surplus-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/us-cheese-surplus-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much of a Good Thing: The US Cheese Glut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much more cheese can you incorporate into your diet? On average, Americans consume about 36 pounds per year, and it\u2019s time to kick it up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, American farmers were enjoying a high global demand for meat and poultry, expanding facilities and increasing production to keep up. As the dollar has risen, though, that global demand has lessened, leaving farms, still big and booming, with excess supply. The surplus of milk that has resulted (an expected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-cheese-glut-is-overtaking-america-1463477403\" target=\"_blank\">212.4 billion pounds<\/a> total this year), along with a rise in imports from the European Union, has impacted cheesemakers as well&mdash;the United States has amassed a 1.2-billion-pound stockpile of cheese, and retail prices have dropped 4.3 percent from this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>To a consumer, this sounds like a dream come true. Not only do we <em>get<\/em> to eat more cheese&mdash;we kinda <em>have<\/em> to. Because, on the flip side, cheesemakers are biting their nails about the record-low prices and dwindling storage space, the call for Americans to up their cheese consumption is very real. In response, the internet is brainstorming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/may\/17\/cheese-america-surplus-donation\" target=\"_blank\">inventive ways<\/a> to deal with the proverbial mountain of cheese in America\u2019s freezer, like erecting <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/cheese-iq\/chipping-away-art-carving-cheese\" target=\"_blank\">cheese sculptures<\/a>, sending it to the moon, and making the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2015\/06\/23\/pizza-mile-long-guinness-world-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">world\u2019s largest pizza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All joking aside, this surplus spells difficulty for dairy farmers if consumers don\u2019t take advantage of the low prices and buy more cheese. \u201cNow that the chickens have come home to roost, prices have gotten pretty bad,\u201d says Iowa cattle farmer Justin Reiter in <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-cheese-glut-is-overtaking-america-1463477403\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>So in honor of America\u2019s cheesy dilemma, don\u2019t hesitate to make some classic <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/recipes\/farmsteads-cheesemongers-mac-n-cheese\" target=\"_blank\">macaroni and cheese<\/a> or its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2teaspoons.com\/baked-mac-and-cheese-bites\/\" target=\"_blank\">fried counterpart<\/a> to go with your summertime (cheese)burgers. It\u2019s your patriotic duty!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Feature Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/pic-76653406\/stock-photo-american-map-made-of-cheese.html?src=aHGm6vHqDbqj5BpHJMZTew-1-27\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;american map made of cheese&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-95882p1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Andrei Marincas<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem\u2014and possible solutions\u2014of the cheese surplus in the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":21102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[875],"class_list":["post-27270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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