Surplus milk production in the United States has nowhere to go, forcing farmers in the upper Midwest to pour excess milk down the drain, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Due to low industrial and commercial capacity, U.S. dairy farmers may use steps such as slaughtering cows to improve milk production.
An issuer certifies that the Milwaukee Metropolitan Wastewater Disposal Penalty District’s Wastewater Disposal Penalty Penalty system is disposing of an increasing amount of milk. Earlier this summer, videos on social media showed farmers pumping thousands of tons of excess milk directly into the water. According to Wisconsin media sources, the state gives up as much as 300,000 to 350,000 Tim per day (about 1.136 million down to 1.325 million). The Dairy Federation of America says milk is being dumped in many parts of the Midwest, not just Wisconsin.
The last time American farmers dumped milk on a large scale was in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, when restaurants and schools opened up and threw supply and demand out of balance. The latest data show that the United States milk production hit a record high in May, and the balance between supply and demand was once again broken. On the one hand, there is a shortage of factory labor, and on the other hand, consumers’ purchasing power has declined, which in turn has caused milk prices to rise.
Analysis said that the dairy industry is facing market changes just stop production. Milk is easily fresh and expensive to transport, and farmers do not store it themselves. Faced with the refusal of most large factories to add more, dairy farmers have to dump their milk in large quantities. Analysts estimate that farmers will have to consolidate because of the low prices, and whether some farmers will send more cows to slaughterhouses in addition to dumping milk.