Dairy Farmers Dumped Enough Milk in 1st 8 Months of the Year to Fill 66 Olympic Swimming Pools
U.S. farmers dumped 43 million gallons of milk in the first eight months of the year, according to USDA - the most wasted in 16 years of data requested by the Wall Street Journal [1]. That's enough milk to fill 66 Olympic swimming pools.
“Desperate producers are working to find new uses for the excess, like getting more milk into school lunches, and in revamped tacos and Egg McMuffins. But many can’t even afford to transport raw milk to market at current prices, which have plunged 36% on average since prices hit records in 2014,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
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