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Number9Dream

(1,560 posts)
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:55 AM Apr 2020

Pennsylvania dairy farmers dumped milk even as buyers couldn't find enough of it

What a crime: "While the Younkers dispensed the cocktail of milk and manure on their farm in Bethel, retail customers 75 miles away in Philadelphia were clamoring for more milk than many grocery stores were able to supply. Refrigerated dairy shelves stood empty, picked clean by panicked customers, while dairy farmers an hour away poured fresh milk into the soil."

"The Younkers’ milk buyer, Clover Farms, directed them to dump the load. Clover’s biggest commercial customers — restaurants, schools, coffee shops — stopped buying after they closed under the coronavirus lockdown, and the processor already had more milk than it could sell."

https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-dairy-farmers-dump-milk-20200421-htoahancbjegxetkgmv7nbolhq-story.html

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customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
1. If there were only some way
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 02:50 PM
Apr 2020

of connecting people with something to sell, and people who want to buy it, maybe electronically, perhaps using this Interwebs thing...

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