The U.S. has 1.19 billion pounds of cheese surplus

Post by **rachelbean** » Tue May 17, 2016 8:23 am

SMARTNEWS Keeping you current
The U.S. Has a Massive Cheese Surplus
Imagine 1.19 billion pounds of cached cheese
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Don't worry...there's more than enough cheese to go around. (Nickas Morberg (Flickr/Creative Commons))
By Erin Blakemore
SMITHSONIAN.COM
MAY 4, 2016
First, it happened with coffee—as the world stockpiled more and more java, prices fell and caffeine fiends found it easier to get their favorite fix. But now, addicts of another stripe are getting their day in the sun. In what could be the dream news of every dairy-loving foodie, Bloomberg’s Whitney McFerron reports that the United States has stockpiled an enormous surplus of cheese.

Global forces like rising European exports, rising American dairy production, a weakening euro, and “a glut of milk” have led the U.S. to stockpile cheese, McFerron writes.

In its dairy market report for the week of April 25 to 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture writes that “cheese vats across the country remain full in efforts to manage the plentiful milk supply….As stocks build, storage availability is becoming a concern.” Phrases like “milk oversupply” and “substantial rises” are rife in the report, which notes that the United States has a total of 725.7 million pounds of “natural American cheese”—real cheese, not the processed cheese product, made in the U.S.A.—and total natural cheese stocks of a whopping 1.191 billion pounds.

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So, get to it Murcans!

Post by **pErvinalia** » Tue May 17, 2016 9:04 am

Is cheese the new gold?

Post by **DaveDodo007** » Tue May 17, 2016 2:15 pm

Hoarders.

Post by **pErvinalia** » Tue May 17, 2016 2:16 pm

Stinky country.

Post by **cronus** » Tue May 17, 2016 2:43 pm

Not fit for human consumption. It's stored in a toxic bank.

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Tue May 17, 2016 9:25 pm

All banks are toxic.

Post by **JimC** » Wed May 18, 2016 1:26 am

"pounds"

Silly old-fashioned merkins...

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Wed May 18, 2016 2:36 am

Cheeses Christ that'd make a big toastie.

Post by **DaveDodo007** » Wed May 18, 2016 9:26 pm

USA is the new France.

Post by **Scot Dutchy** » Thu May 19, 2016 9:42 am

Another American wet dream.

Post by **rasetsu** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:51 am

Post by **mistermack** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:59 am

American cheese :
"It's cheese Jim, but not as we know it".

Post by **JimC** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:59 am

I'm sure they have some good artisan cheeses, as most dairy producing regions do. We have some beauties in Oz, but the cheap commercial cheeses would be the same the world over...

Post by **Scot Dutchy** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:38 am

Please. We dont have commercial processed muck here. Our cheese is still that cheese.

Post by **Sean Hayden** » Sat Jun 04, 2016 5:45 pm

I've done my part.

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