Crying Over Spilled Milk

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  1. Apr 8, 2020 #11
    Roberts450

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    Im not sure but since its unpasteurized Im sure it dosent hold very long at all or they would have storage tanks for just these reasons. I follow a farmer for Tillamook out here in Oregon on Facebook, so I’ll ask him, but he has mentioned that the farmers have insurance for this sort of thing.
     
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  3. Apr 9, 2020 #12
    Flat Earth Trucker

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    There are no "holding tanks" for milk. Storing milk in a tank wagon is also not an option.

    If raw milk cannot be Pasteurized quickly, then it will of course spoil.
     
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  4. Apr 14, 2020 #13
    MTN Boomer

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    Make cheese, powdered, milk freeze it, ice cream, farmers in Florida are plowing up crops, ,next we will be starving
     
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  5. Apr 14, 2020 #14
    kemosabi49

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    The plants that make cheese, powdered milk and ice cream are already getting all they can use. And even if they could expand or build new plants fast enough to help now, no one is going to commit the money to do so without firm commitments from buyers.
     
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  7. Apr 16, 2020 #15
    mjd4277

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    They can make things work a little more, but then you have other issues like cleanup. Most plants run close to capacity as it is, the spring flush isn't as much a factor as it was with pastured cows. If there is no where to take finished product, the raw milk must be disposed of in non productive ways, you can't even feed it to swine or poultry anymore unless it is processed first. In large scale at least.
     
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