May 4, 2016
PITY THE POOR MALTHUSIANS:
The U.S. Has a Massive Cheese Surplus : Imagine 1.19 billion pounds of cached cheese (Erin Blakemore, 5/04/16, SMITHSONIAN.COM)
In its dairy market report for the week of April 25 to 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture writes that "cheese vats across the country remain full in efforts to manage the plentiful milk supply....As stocks build, storage availability is becoming a concern." Phrases like "milk oversupply" and "substantial rises" are rife in the report, which notes that the United States has a total of 725.7 million pounds of "natural American cheese"--real cheese, not the processed cheese product, made in the U.S.A.--and total natural cheese stocks of a whopping 1.191 billion pounds.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 4, 2016 4:04 PM