Regional Strategy of Dairymen Status of Milk I studied at Woolworth Super in McAriey Shopping Center. When I entered the supermarket, the first thing I saw was fresh vegetables and fruits (bananas, strawberries, apples etc). On the left side there was a fresh baked aisle, and there was a passage that provided precious products. As I walked along the pan rack, I saw Deli selling lunch, bacon etc. Turning to the right, you will see a frozen area where customers can choose refrigerated items and the white milk fridge on the left is near Deli.
Why is the farmer in Kentucky frozen outside the local market? Part of the answer lies in a powerful dairy cooperative, a group of farmers selling milk together. The US dairy farmer, the largest dairy farming cooperative in the United States, has an incentive to maintain the milk shortage in the southeast, as the group makes the market for the accession market in the Midwest. The struggle of American dairymen has not extended to their colleagues north of the border. The Canadian government operates a supply management system that manages the production of dairy products, eggs and poultry in the country. Canada carries out domestic production allocation and uses this system to limit the import and export of dairy products. Therefore, even if the impact on consumer goods is large, we maintain price stability and secure farmers' stable revenue.
It is not dairy farming. In the face of intensifying competition with dairy substitutes such as almonds, soybeans, coconut milk, national dairymen are fighting back with the help of Congress. Their goal is to prevent companies from calling their own plant-derived products as yogurt, milk, cheese. According to a dairy farmer, this approach misleads consumers to consider non-dairy milk as nutritionally similar to milk. A bipartisan group of 32 members of Congress requested the US Food and Drug Administration to crack down on companies that call vegetable drinks "milk." They said that F.D.A. regulation defines milk as "lactation secretion" obtained by milking "one or more healthy cows". Vermont's Democratic Party Rep. Peter Welch and Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tami Baldwin said the state is known for its cheese and legislate to more broadly define their billing requirements for the FDA Proposal.
According to Mark Stephenson, a University of Wisconsin dairy farm, Kentucky and southeast milk has a net loss of 41 billion pounds annually, despite the nationwide surplus of milk. In other words, even though these state dairymen have trouble, grocery stores import milk from refrigerated trucks in the Midwest. Why is the farmer in Kentucky frozen outside the local market? Part of the answer lies in a powerful dairy cooperative, a group of farmers selling milk together. The US dairy farmer, the largest dairy farming cooperative in the United States, has an incentive to maintain milk deficiency in the southeastern part because the group is a market for the accession market in the Midwest.