Since-deleted videos on social media earlier this summer showed farmers pumping thousands of gallons of excess milk directly onto their fields.
Pete Hardin, editor of Wisconsin-based dairy publication The Milkweed, told local media the state’s milk supply with no home could fill as many as 50 trailers a day, each carrying 6,000 to 7,000 gallons.
The last time American farmers dumped milk en masse was during the early weeks of Covid-19, when the sudden closure of restaurants and schools threw off a delicate supply and demand balance. Unlike other supermarket staples that can halt the factory line when the market shifts, cows can’t just turn off their udders. Milk is highly perishable and requires expensive transportation, and farmers don’t have room to store it all themselves.
Despite recent memories of the pandemic, “farmers have continued to grow milk production, which has put us back into a surplus situation in the region,” said Nate Donnay, director of Dairy Market Insight at StoneX. Meanwhile, the scheduled end of the school year means kids are drinking less milk in the lunchroom than they were in the spring.
They’re “unable to get other plants to take the milk because they have all the milk they need,” Cropp said of farmers across Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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