Crying Over Spilled Milk

Fear of contamination I guess.

 

Not in the least bit. Cow’s just cant stop producing milk so as the article states with the school’s and restaurants closed all the places that packaged milk for those places no longer can take milk shipments from the farmers so they have to dump it. Its simple supply/demand supply chain logistics.

 

Too bad they can't turn it all into dry milk, especially since so many people want to buy that kind of thing right now.

 

This may be dumb question but how come they dont have holding tanks to keep it . How long would it take for milk to go bad in that situation

 

It is a waste. 30000 pounds is about what I used to take into Cloverland Baltimore off Exeter Hall Ave each day from 6 or 7 farms. I forget the gallons, but less than 6000 capacity of trailer. Giver take 5000 pounds.

I have no problems dumping 3000 gallons of a particularly poor farmer whom I will not name names, he was poor enough and to be publicly announced as that famous farmer so poor we threw away his milk due to too many bugs in it. Or no sanitizing cleaning done. (Cannot afford supplies) To save a trailer load of 28000 pounds and two more future pickups. Poor farmer.

But he was stubborn. I'll give him that. day in day out he milked. If you looked sideways at the cows maybe they look plump enough to give the milk. Maybe. He was also the one who taught me rock crawling rather than gravel his drive. So I was doing rock crawling over boulders with that walking beam mack long before today's kiddies think they are crawling anything.

But a dairy to dump milk? Thats good money down the drain. You would think they load that into a sleeper truck and team to rush 600 miles to 1500 miles overnight. And sell it there.

 

I would think no longer than whatever the expiration date on the carton would have been. Dry milk would have been the only way to save it.

Edit: I used to buy Parmalat milk in a sealed container that had a much longer shelf life. I don't know why they couldn't do that.

 

If a dairy could dehydrate milk into dry boxed form, they could store it forever. Or condense it and can it.

Couldnt they?

 

There hasn't been much of a market for dry milk so there probably aren't too many factories producing it. Now, people have more of a survivalist mentality, but would any company want to spend the money to build another factory when things go back to relative normalcy? I've only been to one down in Casa Grande, AZ. I don't know where any others are, so even if these dairy farmers wanted to, there might not be any facilities close enough to make it worthwile.

 

Right now is the time for factories that specialize in canning food to take advantage of this opportunity. I’ve seen several canned milk products at Walmart. Those things are probably good for a couple years.