Truckloads of fresh milk are being dumped across Wisconsin. Granted, that’s not uncommon around this time every year, but it’s the sheer amount that’s being dumped that’s raising eyebrows.
Here’s Five Fast Facts About Dumped Milk:
- 🥛 How Much? - We’re talking truckloads. Specifically five a week, which is around 6,500 gallons. That’s not a typo or a misplaced comma.
- 🐄 Isn’t Milk Expensive Right Now? - Yes, it is. And that’s why dairies increased production and brought in more cows. They wanted to raise the supply to meet the demand.
- 🍼 Why? - Dumping only happens when a plant runs out of capacity and there’s no extra space at another plant within driving distance. Rest assured, the producers don’t want to see this stuff go to waste.
- 🐮 Where’s It Going? - The sewers. No, seriously. The milk dumped into the Milwaukee sewers was treated to comply with state and federal regulations and the clean water act. So your toilet bowl will not double as a cereal bowl.
- 📈 So Milk Will Finally Be Cheaper, Right? - Nope. The surplus isn’t bringing down milk prices at the grocery store. In fact, there’s so much milk, farmers are getting 30 to 40% less than last year.
🔥Bottom line: The market is weird right now, y’all. It’s not behaving how it should at all. And you have to start to wonder why it isn’t. I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but you have to wonder why we’re paying more for things even when there’s now an oversupply of the stuff we want. It seems like the fix is in and we’re all paying for it.
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