When I first rang Tom Portner to talk about his dairy farm Port-Haven, he told me to call back in a few minutes—he was in the middle of helping a cow give birth. The third in 24 hours, in fact. “Yesterday I had 24 due, now three of them have calves,” he says when I … [ Read more]
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U.S. cheese inventory at a 30-year high
May 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The United States is sitting on a glut of cheese (about 1.2 billion pounds in stock, per the USDA). This, according to a Bloomberg report, is the result of circumstances in the European Union—a surplus of milk, plunging prices, and a weakening Euro. The United States, thanks to a strengthening dollar, has increased its imports of European dairy … [ Read more]
