Farming

Foodservice Decline Leads to Flock Culling | Poultry Industry News | lancasterfarming.com

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Foodservice Decline Leads to Flock Culling | Poultry Industry News | lancasterfarming.com

Some Northeastern poultry flocks are being depopulated in response to drastically reduced demand from the foodservice industry.

Michael Foods, a foodservice and ingredient supplier that is one of the nation’s largest buyers of eggs, appears to have suddenly cut purchases for its large processing plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

With restaurants, cruise ships, bakeries and other buyers of bulk eggs closed for the COVID-19 pandemic, demand had apparently dried up.

Butter v. Margarine

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SYMHC Classics: Butter v. Margarine

4/11/2020 by iHeartRadio

Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=101759143
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/5899E/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW7388620018.mp3

This 2016 episode delves into how industries and governments had a really weird preoccupation with protecting people from margarine way before it was made with the hydrogenated oils that led to its unhealthy reputation in more recent years. There’s even bootlegging involved.

I don’t remember if I had previously heard this podcast but it’s a fascinating listen.

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.