OT Holy Cow, Batman!

[ABM]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/business/dean-foods-bankruptcy/index.html


FWIW, My wife usually gets almond milk.

America's largest milk producer files for bankruptcy

New York (CNN Business)Dean Foods, America's largest milk producer, is filing for bankruptcy.

The 94-year-old company has struggled in recent years because Americans are drinking less cows milk. 2019 has been particularly brutal: the company's sales tumbled 7% in the first half of the year, and profit fell 14%. Dean Foods (DF) stock has lost 80% this year
The company, which produces some of the country's most recognizable milk and dairy products, including Dairy Pure, Organic Valley and Land O'Lakes milks, has blamed its struggles on the "accelerated decline in the conventional white milk category." (CONTINUED...)

 

[riverman]

I grew up on a dairy farm in Iowa....only 60 milk cows....milk factories might go down that have thousands of cows but the small dairy farmer will survive...drinking milk isn't where most dairy goes anyway...people are still going to eat ice cream, use butter, cheese, yogurt and everything else made with dairy. Soy beans are super cheap to produce and soy milk is about twice the price of cow milk as it

 

[Orion Bailey]

I grew up on a dairy farm in Iowa....only 60 milk cows....milk factories might go down that have thousands of cows but the small dairy farmer will survive...drinking milk isn't where most dairy goes anyway...people are still going to eat ice cream, use butter, cheese, yogurt and everything else made with dairy. Soy beans are super cheap to produce and soy milk is about twice the price of cow milk as it

Absolutely agree. And Ill add I don't think drinking cows milk will diminish enough to affect smaller dairies even if they don't make the side products. I'm a milk lover and i'm not alone. If it left the stores, Id pay the dairy to deliver like back in the old days.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I can't remember the last time I actually just drank real milk. I usually use almond milk for cereal and any baking that calls for milk. The only dairy I still eat is cheese cause cheese is irreplaceable so far.

 

[Lanny]

I grew up on a dairy farm in Iowa....only 60 milk cows....milk factories might go down that have thousands of cows but the small dairy farmer will survive...drinking milk isn't where most dairy goes anyway...people are still going to eat ice cream, use butter, cheese, yogurt and everything else made with dairy. Soy beans are super cheap to produce and soy milk is about twice the price of cow milk as it

That's wh

Absolutely agree. And Ill add I don't think drinking cows milk will diminish enough to affect smaller dairies even if they don't make the side products. I'm a milk lover and i'm not alone. If it left the stores, Id pay the dairy to deliver like back in the old days.

My grandmother had a milk box. The milkman would leave eggs, butter, half and half and milk in the milk carton every week. I've still got her old Alpenrose milk box somewhere in my garage.
I use to drink between a quart and half a gallon of milk every day. Now, I can handle neither the phosphorous nor the potassium and was told to lay off milk. You have no idea how hard that was to do.

 

[MARIS61]