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Meanwhile there's a cream shortage here on the east coast US! The price of cream has gone up substantially and was entirely unavailable during Thanksgiving week
by rexreed 4y ago
Meanwhile there's a cream shortage here on the east coast US! The price of cream has gone up substantially and was entirely unavailable during Thanksgiving weekend in my local area. No heavy or light cream whatsoever at any store. And now it's 2.5x the price it usually is.
- bombcar 4y agoIt’s amazing how local diary still is for many things. During covid my parents could barely get milk and meanwhile we were drowning in it.
- rexreed 4y agoEven worse - dairy farms here had to dump milk due to overproduction because there wasn't enough capacity for milk processing to turn into cream and other products. Something is really broken in dairy supply chain and the production lines here. Cream is still not available in our region and hasn't been for months. Some crazy stuff in this article by an Ag producer: https://agmoos.com/2021/12/10/supply-and-demand-are-the-real-story-behind-chaos-in-cream-markets/ https://agmoos.com/2021/12/10/supply-and-demand-are-the-real... And competition between cheese, cream, ice cream makers for tight milk availability: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/heres-why-the-us-is-facing-a-butter-shortage-ahead-of-holidays/ https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/heres-why-the-us-is-facing-a-b...
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, and I'm not sure all of those things can be effectively shipped very far (perhaps cheese and ice cream). Around here milk is a bit higher than before, but there's no shortages of anything cow related.
- ska 4y ago> It’s amazing how local diary still is for many things. It's not really surprising, it doesn't ship well or age well (at least, not as liquid). You can do things like UHT but it negatively affects quality and makes it useless for a lot of things.