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  • Make America Grate Again? There's 1.4 Billion Pounds Of Surplus Cheese In The U.S.

    01/10/2019 3:11:59 PM PST · by bgill · 54 replies
    wbur ^ | Jan. 8, 2019 | Jeremy Hobson
    More than 900,000 cubic yards of cheddar, American and Swiss currently sit in cold storage across the United States, enough cheese to form a wheel the size of the U.S. Capitol building. The excess is the biggest the country has seen since the government started keeping track a century ago, and it's 16 percent larger than the cheese surplus of 2016 when the government offered to buy up $20 million worth of excess cheese... "Part of it is changes in the domestic use of that milk." Another factor is trade — "a self-inflicted wound," Novakovic says. And there is growing...
  • The United States Has Stockpiled a Grotesque Surplus of American Cheese

    05/03/2016 7:06:22 AM PDT · by C19fan · 64 replies
    Slate ^ | May 2, 2016 | Jordan Weissmann
    The words “cheese surplus” should be inherently joyful—sort of like “birthday cake” or “birth of your first child.” And yet I am having trouble mustering much glee over the news that U.S. cheese inventories have reached a 30-year high of 1.2 billion pounds, because for the past year it seems we've mostly stockpiling a whole bunch of American.