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| Supply chain disruptions impacting dairy farmers amid ongoing COVID-related issues |
| 2021-10-23 |
| [FoxNews] The nation’s dairy farmers are feeling the squeeze of the pandemic, as supply chain issues are raising the cost of producing and packaging milk. Basic resources are getting expensive for dairy farmers. For some smaller farms, it’s making it hard to pay the bills. "At the end of writing all the checks and seeing what I had to pay, I had $3 left for the week," said Carolyn Adkins, owner of Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, South Carolina. The farm produces about 30 gallons of raw milk per day, and some of the business’s nearly 70 cows are milked every morning. But during the pandemic, buying feed for the cows hasn't been cheap. "On average it cost us around $250 a ton, now it’s close to $350 a ton," Adkins said. "If you are a dairy farmer anywhere in the country you are seeing increases in everything you need to produce milk," said Alan Bjerga, a spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation. So if the cost of business is rising for farmers, why can’t milk prices just be raised to compensate? Bjerga says it's not that simple. "Dairy is a perishable product, it can’t just sit there forever before it’s consumed. So there’s always that pressure to get the product out," he said. Bjerga says the cost of milk has gone up about 1% over the past year, but consumer inflation has risen 5%. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 #8 & #9 are Udderly ☺ to the point |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-10-23 17:58 |
| #9 ^ "Lactating Non-Persons" |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-10-23 14:58 |
| #8 Biological milk generation units (cows) don't understand supply chain issues. That's why there's dumping. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-10-23 14:24 |
| #7 The actual source of the 'supply chain' problems is that no one operating a business on their own dime is going to risk anything while these twits are in the change all the rules mode. Operators will quietly limp along and try not to draw any attention. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-23 10:53 |
| #6 It's not just Biden. He's just a foolish figurehead who is finally realising his lifelong dream of being POTUS - whatever the cost. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-10-23 08:59 |
| #5 The economy is delicate. Little changes (what Trump was limited to accomplishing) can do much good. OTOH, it seems Bidet has the reverse Midas touch, he can turn anything to sh*t. Part of the whole "Who's really running things?" nature of the Bidet misministration is that the people actually implementing all the bad policy are anonymous, so they won't pay a price down the road. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-23 08:49 |
| #4 Why? Partially the accumulated insults to the system are reaching a tipping point. Partially because President Biden’s administration has made every wrong choice possible. President Trump could have this turned around in six months, fighting rear guard lawsuits from the Democrats the entire time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-23 08:44 |
| #3 FYI, the average daily milk production per normal dairy cow (milked twice daily) is around 7-8 gallons (56-64 lbs.). 4-5 gallons milked once a day. 30 gallons of raw milk per day for 70 head is a bit weak. ~1/2 a gallon per head is wrong. Somebody didn't do their math, the numbers weren't transposed correctly, her cattle are on starvation feed, or she's only milking 6-8 of them once daily. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-10-23 08:17 |
| #2 ^ Insightful. Watch your six. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-23 07:48 |
| #1 I am missing something.... At the height of the C-19 pandemic it wasn't this screwed up. Now we have 48.4% of the worlds population (6.82 billion) VAX'd. But...Suddenly now we have food, gas, and etc. worldwide shortages? Aside from panic buying like T.P. and bacon... why now and not then? BTW: Gas 87 octane up $0.40 in 1 month. as we hit $3.30 a gal yesterday here in Mid East Ga. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-10-23 07:42 |