Dairy Farmers Are Dumping Huge Amounts of Milk – Modern Farmer

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Dairy Farmers Are Dumping Huge Amounts of Milk – Modern Farmer

Two weeks ago Patrick Grimshaw got a call from his local cooperative manager telling him that his milk wouldn’t make it to market.

With the onset of COVID-19 forcing the closure of many restaurants, schools, food services and milk processing plants that would usually purchase his product, the Henderson, New York dairy farmer says he the only place he could send his milk was down the drain.

“I was pretty disgusted,” he says. “We’ve been working tirelessly trying to find our milk a home.”

Since receiving that call, Grimshaw says he’s had to dump about 250,000 pounds of milk. Members of the co-op have contacts from the east coast all the way to Ohio, but Grimshaw says it’s been impossible to get anyone to take their milk in the last two weeks.

Do reusable grocery bags spread the virus? And are they banned? – Daily Democrat

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Coronavirus: Do reusable grocery bags spread the virus? And are they banned? – Daily Democrat

“So far, evidence suggests that the virus does not survive as well on a soft surface (such as fabric) as it does on frequently touched hard surfaces like elevator buttons and door handles,” wrote Dr. Lisa Lockerd Maragakis, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, in a recent article.

She noted that the 72-hour life of the virus on plastic has received a lot of attention, but the scientists who made that discovery found that by 72 hours less than 0.1% of the starting virus material remains, meaning infection is unlikely.

Even though that study didn’t expressly answer the question about reusable bags, it can inform decisions about them, some experts say.

“When I think about what the things are that we can do to reduce pandemic risk, do I think this is the most important thing? No,” said Dr. Stephen Luby, an epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University. “Is there some evidence to support it? Yes. I guess I would say I don’t find it unreasonable.”

April 7, 2020 Morning

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Good morning! Today the 7:30 PM Sunset Returns 🌇. Really digging the nicer weather. Four weeks to Cinco de Mayo 🤠. You know a good day to drink Corona and eat burritos, that is up in the wilderness. 🍻 Hopefully by then the brewery will be open again in ol Me-xico. Partly cloudy and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. Nice day.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 23rd. Light west wind increasing to 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Very low humidity, so dry skin expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 2010. 3.2 inches of snow fell back in 1896.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 54.4° from the due south horizon (-16.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Getting higher every day. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:51 pm with the sun in the west (274°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (281°) starting at 7:26 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 7:57 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (101°) at an altitude of 9° from the horizon, 226,432 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:32 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 59 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly after 3am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2018.

Easter weekend still looks pretty good, maybe a touch cold. Good Friday, clouds and 50 degrees. ☁ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 51. ☀ Easter, a chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Chance of precipitation is 40%. ⛅ Typical average high for the weekend is 56 degrees.

Do I have plans for the weekend? 🐰 Only time will tell. I might I might not. But I plan to practice social distancing as all the good fishing 🎣 spots are at least six feet away plus I want to do some target practice 🔫 and maybe listen to some music 🎶 up at camp. ⛺ But plans could change.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Cinco de Mayo 🤠 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:31 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 58 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1944.

Mudding