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Royalfan5

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

     

     

    If only raw milk could be made into other products

    Just in case you didn't read the story I posted here is what the industry is begging the USDA to do with the billions that got appropriated to them thru the CARES act:

     

    You still have to have the capacity to process the milk into the other products and store it. That's the bottle neck. The government can buy products but until they've cleared the storage space, they can't keep processing, and they can't turn it all into powered milk because there is only so much capacity to do that. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

    Hi Mr USDAđź‘‹

    I don't care what they do with it, but if they need it, I'd rather them have too much and let them throw away the waste.  Dumping it during a time of food shortage is indefensible. PERIOD.

    Look I'm a commodity broker, all the livestock markets are basically fucked right now. They're in the processes of getting unfucked, but when dealing with capacity constraints, there is only so much people can do with perishable products. We're running bacon through rendering plants too, because there is no where to go with food service bacon in storage, or the logistics to move it somewhere else. It is shitty, but there's not a magic bullet to add capacity at the snap of a finger. Milk is being dumped because there isn't any storage or spare processing capacity. You can't even let it sit on tankers, because they're going milk the cows again tomorrow, and that milk's got to go somewhere. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

    Even if it's unpossible for the food service industry to package for retail, the government should step in and purchase the food service product and distribute to the poor.

    What is the poor going to do with 10lb bricks of butter? The processors are paying the dairy farmers for the product, and things are unjamming already, you just had some loads get caught without anywhere to go, and it makes great doomsday headlines. Milk gets dumped almost every spring by processors because this is the seasonal high, it's just that we are paying attention now. 

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  4. 38 minutes ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

    Thanks be to the USDA. Shortages in stores, food banks empty, people going hungry; plan of action? Dump it on the f^cking ground!



    https://amp.jsonline.com/amp/2938784001?__twitter_impression=true

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    It's not the USDA fault there is no storage, and the food service channel jammed, and we don't have the packaging capacity to swing it into the retail market. 

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  5. 37 minutes ago, Parliament said:
    53 minutes ago, Hate said:

    I posted a link to a story a few days ago that reported over 200k people had flown from China to the US just before travel from China was banned. That was only for direct flights. It didn’t not count any people on transfer flights. Detroit was one of the major destinations as was New York and Seattle.

    Also lotsa Canadians travel to and fro Detroit.

    Probably some Italian back and forth too with FCA

  6. 7 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

    Forgiving granny because she is old, but organized religion has been controlling people and getting them killed since the dawn of mankind. Have a DQ Blizzard for me gramps. It is impressive that you're not lactose intolerant at your age.

    I’m glad my Grandma has the attitude that at age 90 that she isn’t going hear anything new on Sunday at this point and will gladly stay home. 

  7. Isn't the most logical thing to do now is just to go on TV and say we've fucked this up so far, but from here on out there's a blank check for public health, and we're going to do whatever it takes to get ahead of it. If we need to roll out Army field hospitals, we will do it., need to deploy the Corps and CB's to build stuff, we'll do it, etc. 

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  8. https://www.omaha.com/livewellnebraska/health/fremont-schools-midland-university-closing-temporarily-because-of-coronavirus-scare/article_888d66b9-adb1-55ec-ba33-ef0961814ae7.html
     

    The Omaha case participated in a basketball tournament in a local town of about 25k, then hit the VFW, and maybe a nursing home. One of the local high schools then made the state girls basketball finals, playing in three arenas in town, including where Nebraska plays although the home schedule is at least over 

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