TRALF 1107 No idea. The destruction of Melmac took a lot of lives.

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Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

dads friend steve posted:

I�m serious btw. like milk seems a perfect example of a commodity that will always have a market so how can capitalism manage to gently caress even that up?

They decided to increase supply as milk sales decreased. All the excess went into cheese that sits around in warehouses.

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As milk sales falter and dairy farmers exit the industry, something counterintuitive has been happening: Dairy production is growing. Milk production grew 15% from 2009 to 2018, according to the USDA.
That rise in production can be partially explained by a growing overall demand for dairy products. Still, the domestic milk supply is outstripping demand.
"The underlying cause of this long low-price period is overproduction, plain and simple," said Lloyd. "There haven't been ways to discipline the production, so it's just continued up and up and up and up." Lloyd said that farmers, desperate to make ends meet, are boosting production to generate cash, a situation she describes as "no breaks agriculture."

Other changes in the industry, including retaliatory tariffs from Trump's trade war factored in.

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Last year, the Dairy Farmers of America � the country's largest dairy cooperative � reported annual net sales of $13.6 billion, a $1.1 billion decrease from 2017. DFA pointed to lower average US milk prices.
The dip can be attributed in part to changes the global milk industry.
In 2015, the European Union put an end to milk quotas. Around the same time, Chinese demand for milk weakened and Russia banned imports.
The changes led to a glut in the global milk supply, driving down prices worldwide and putting pressure on the United States, which had a healthy export market.
Farmers are accustomed to the ebb and flow in dairy prices, and while those years of low prices marked a particularly tough cycle, relief started to come in 2018, noted Alan Bjerga, senior vice president of communications at the National Milk Producers Federation, a lobbying group.
Then retaliatory tariffs from Mexico and China kicked in, delivering another blow to the industry.
In a June statement about trade relations with China, the NMPF said that "tariffs erected in 2018 have proven to be a catastrophic blow for the US dairy industry."
"It would have been a long low-price cycle in any case, but it would have been on the long side," Bjerga told CNN Business. "The trade war definitely prolonged it. And that definitely was a problem for farmers who really weren't able to hold out anymore."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/business/milk-industry-dean-foods/index.html

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GrimGypsy: Mar 27, 2007

aatrek on titan

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:26

Joementum: May 23, 2004; jesus christ

GrimGypsy posted:

aatrek on titan

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:26

Gringostar: Nov 12, 2016; Morbid Hound

GrimGypsy posted:

aatrek on titan

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:27

Woodchip: Mar 28, 2010

eric ciaramella posted:

local milk people

milk drinkers think hill will lose #yaaskween #bluetexas

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:28

NofrikinfuN: Apr 23, 2009

Gringostar posted:

which mod was this?

lol so its that nightmare scenario where they had as much access as they were rumored to have and they had literally zero oversight

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:28

Third World Reagan: May 19, 2008; Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

https://twitter.com/RoseFasa/status/1215327086900056066

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:28

Bearjew: Apr 18, 2017

Third World Reagan posted:

https://twitter.com/RoseFasa/status/1215327086900056066

lmao

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:29

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

GrimGypsy posted:

aatrek on titan

Holy gently caress

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:29

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1215422302587883520?s=20
Did this get posted

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:30

petit choux: Feb 24, 2016

Bearjew posted:

lmao

Quarter million in student debt? Okay.

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:30

new kind of cat: May 8, 2007

Gringostar posted:

which mod was this?

that�s a lotta nuts!

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:30

JaneError: Feb 4, 2016; how would i even breathe on the moon?

https://twitter.com/pblest/status/1215472999744163841?s=21

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:30

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1215472524307451904?s=20
Cool

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:30

pillsburysoldier: Feb 11, 2008; Yo, peep that shit

GrimGypsy posted:

aatrump on titan

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:31

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

wow! 17.3% loan forgiveness!!

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:31

wet_goods: Jun 21, 2004; I'M BAAD!

Love that tump killed 170 people by proxy, gently caress this dumb world, also if you haven't seen any videos of the after crash cleanup, don't it will haunt ur brain

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:31

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

dads friend steve posted:

I�m serious btw. like milk seems a perfect example of a commodity that will always have a market so how can capitalism manage to gently caress even that up?

here's a ten minute clip that explains it pretty well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuY0oDGeiw

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:31

MadJackal: Apr 30, 2004

Joementum posted:

we had a 1920s round at trivia tonight and i was the only person on the team who knew who Warren G Harding was and what USSR stood for

of course they mocked me in other rounds for not recognizing a beyonce song played in reverse

Pub trivia is the best place to flex your way-too-into-history-and-politics knowledge.

Someone claims the title of go-to for incredibly recent pop culture, someone else is the go-to for sports, and you�re the guy who�s the go-to for every mildly esoteric topic that could reasonably be asked.

You are credit to team; don�t let them denigrate your point scoring skills.

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:32

redneck nazgul: Apr 25, 2013

MadJackal posted:

Pub trivia is the best place to flex your way-too-into-history-and-politics knowledge.

Someone claims the title of go-to for incredibly recent pop culture, someone else is the go-to for sports, and you�re the guy who�s the go-to for every mildly esoteric topic that could reasonably be asked.

You are credit to team; don�t let them denigrate your point scoring skills.

are you the go-to for medicines and prescription drugs

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:33

Joementum: May 23, 2004; jesus christ

it's incredibly obnoxious that liberals let the right have "epstein didnt kill himself" as their meme because the clintons were suspects in the obvious murder when trump is also a larger and much more obvious suspect in the murder

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1215351036082368513

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:33

NofrikinfuN: Apr 23, 2009

wet_goods posted:

Love that tump killed 170 people by proxy, gently caress this dumb world, also if you haven't seen any videos of the after crash cleanup, don't it will haunt ur brain

lol

he has killed way more than 170

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:35

Fireside Nut: Feb 10, 2010; turp

Rah! posted:

dook truna

Rah! posted:

dook truna

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:35

tacodaemon: Nov 27, 2006

big week for famous jeopardy champs

https://mobile.twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1215456737446125568

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:36

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

Joementum posted:

we had a 1920s round at trivia tonight and i was the only person on the team who knew who Warren G Harding was and what USSR stood for

of course they mocked me in other rounds for not recognizing a beyonce song played in reverse

lmao nerd

the only way to win at trivia is to get so drunk youre kicked off the team

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:36

Taco Duck: Feb 18, 2011

Joementum posted:

it's incredibly obnoxious that liberals let the right have "epstein didnt kill himself" as their meme because the clintons were suspects in the obvious murder when trump is also a larger and much more obvious suspect in the murder

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1215351036082368513

What kind of maniac would think Hillary was involved in that

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:36

RandomBlue: Dec 30, 2012; hay guys!; Biscuit Hider

twoday posted:

here's a ten minute clip that explains it pretty well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuY0oDGeiw

I remember getting government cheese, peanut butter, honey and powdered milk. The milk was loving horrible. My parents would mix it and put it in old milk jugs they'd cleaned out to try and fool us but there was no disguising that taste.

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:36

pillsburysoldier: Feb 11, 2008; Yo, peep that shit

Resonance in Terror was a mostly good anime that finished quickly enough, though the tropes kinda made it lose momentum and I felt no real attachment to the characters. The story beats were fun and lol at the japanese conception of the american government

# ? Jan 10, 2020 04:36