Farmers across the U.S. upper Midwest are being forced to dump their supplies of excess milk as facilities struggle to find space to store it as demand wanes, according to multiple reports.
Demand for milk across the upper Midwest is down 20 percent this year, according to NewsNation. However, farmers still need to milk cows regularly, otherwise they risk leaving the animals with bruising, udder injuries, or serious sickness.
That has left farmers battling with an excess stock of milk that simply has nowhere to go.
Pete Hardin, the editor of Wisconsin-based dairy publication The Milkweed, told local television station WITI earlier this month that the excess milk could fill 45–50 trailer loads a day, at around 6,000–7,000 gallons each….