{"id":38709,"date":"2020-09-16T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:49:43","slug":"ask-the-monger-how-can-there-be-milk-waste-and-shortages-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/ask-the-monger-how-can-there-be-milk-waste-and-shortages-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Monger: How Can There Be Milk Waste and Shortages at the Same Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How is it that there can be milk waste and retail milk shortages at the same time?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s sad to picture the millions of pounds of milk that have been dumped since the COVID-19 pandemic came to this continent. Just how much fresh milk has gone down the drain is hard to calculate, but an article in the May 1, 2020, issue of the Capital Press (the West Coast\u2019s weekly agricultural newspaper) quotes the Idaho Dairymen\u2019s Association at 700,000 to one-million pounds of milk going to waste every day. That\u2019s close to 100,000 gallons, if you\u2019re curious. Yet for a time at least, grocery stores were short of this staple food. The cause of this paradox boils down to the efficiency of the fluid milk supply chain in this country\u2014an efficiency based on a supply and demand that is somewhat predictable. There are other circumstances that can lead to the dumping of milk, but let\u2019s take a pared-down look at how our fluid milk supply was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

When restaurants and schools closed all across the nation, they all but ceased buying milk, cheese, and butter. It is estimated that about half of the cheese produced in the United States is destined for food service, and because it takes a great deal of milk to make cheese (more than one gallon for each pound of cheese) the decline in foodservice demand meant a huge drop in cheese production. This almost-overnight loss instantly created a staggering surplus of milk. At the same time that restaurants and schools were shuttered, consumer purchases increase at the grocery store. Shoppers usually found plenty of cheese, but jugs and cartons of milk were scarce. Now, picture an efficient milk processing plant designed to run at peak with milk coming in and going out at a steady, sustainable pace. These fluid milk processors cannot rapidly re-tool to increase production, nor was much of the surplus milk actually available for them to bottle. Things such as milk contracts and regulations for milk quality mean that the destination of the milk cannot quickly change. In addition, many of these processors were impacted by the same health concerns experienced by other industries.<\/p>\n

Global pandemic issues affected our dairy farmers as well. For example, one of the biggest importers of powdered milk is China. When the coronavirus hit that country, those sales disappeared, so farmers contracted to produce fluid milk for this specialized segment of the processing chain had nowhere to send their milk.<\/p>\n

Seasonality also had its hand in the volume of milk that was dumped. With spring comes calves and with calves comes a huge increase in milk\u2014dubbed the \u201cspring flush\u201d by dairy farmers. In other words, the timing of the surplus couldn\u2019t have been worse for the farmers. A cow isn\u2019t a machine for which you can turn a knob and adjust the production. In fact, it\u2019s almost another paradox that such a highly perishable product made by a living creature is produced, processed, and distributed by such a complex supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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