I think it's about time Congress ended the program to buy up milk and cheese. All it does is encourage overproduction.
(Video) The Rise and Fall of Milk
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I think it's about time Congress ended the program to buy up milk and cheese. All it does is encourage overproduction.
I can kind of see the logic for the system of farm subsidies when you were dealing with a still significantly agricultural nation 80+ years ago, but at this point, the number of people you're keeping afloat with subsidized milk is so tiny it doesn't warrant the expenditure and the higher cost of dairy for everyone. Just let a few dairies fail and everyone else enjoy cheaper dairy products. It's not like dairy would go away if the government stepped back, it would just be priced appropriately.
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I used to freaking love milk and drank it all the time,
I became lactose intolerant in my mid-20s so now im down to the rare cup of chocolate milk or milkshakes when it won't be an issue.
I became lactose intolerant in my mid-20s so now im down to the rare cup of chocolate milk or milkshakes when it won't be an issue.
US dairy farmers have been trying for years to dump their oversupply into Canada, where we have supply controls in place. They managed to succeed a bit under Trump, and his bully tactics.
I drank shitloads of milk when I was younger, but only keep it in the house now if it goes into a recipe. But I'll take a glass of whole milk 100% of the time over almond/oat/whatever "milk".
As a kid, I was like, why do they need to advertise milk (and beef and pork)? As an adult, I understand how the marketing works to make sure there's demand and even a sub conscious inkling that the stuff is good for you and you need to keep consuming it.
Sometimes I just crave some ice cold milk. Delicious. Though I am drinking more milk alternatives as well, my favorite being Oat milk
so I mean, price floors and supply quotas for milk have logistical reasons for existing - chief among them is that you literally can't not milk a dairy cow. like, it'll likely get sick/injured and very possibly die (bovine mastitis, etc). you have to milk, but you have a limited amount of storage capacity (on the farm or at the processing plants), so milk has to keep moving from location to location. if a disruption happens (fall in demand, pandemic, etc), you have to dump it because milk is perishable. the milk system exists to keep farmers afloat if these things happen (like they did last year), because the alternative is that nobody manufactures it at all - it's a market that cannot survive changes in demand easily, especially rapid ones.
that being said, the smart farmers looking for the smart money have been exiting dairy for years. the margins are terrible, it's very work-intensive if you're not a factory farm, and it can be an absolute pain in the ass. my family's farm is basically running a break-even or net-negative dairy operation that's subsidized by the grain/soybean/corn/etc harvesting they also do. even if you don't get rid of the price controls, it's definitely going to go through some changes in the next few decades.
that being said, the smart farmers looking for the smart money have been exiting dairy for years. the margins are terrible, it's very work-intensive if you're not a factory farm, and it can be an absolute pain in the ass. my family's farm is basically running a break-even or net-negative dairy operation that's subsidized by the grain/soybean/corn/etc harvesting they also do. even if you don't get rid of the price controls, it's definitely going to go through some changes in the next few decades.
Yes of course. Let me stow away my Trump memorabilia real quick and delete some tweets.
Oh, not a problem. Our program is not political at all, you are an independent, yes?
Yep, 100% unbiased independent who always sides with conservatives.