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Milk Glut Prompts Farmers To Dump Excess Into Sewers, Onto Fields

  • According to a report by Bloomberg, there’s more milk than ever in the United States but nowhere left to process it, forcing farmers across the Upper Midwest to pour the excess dairy down the drain.
  • The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s wastewater treatment system has been handling increased volumes of milk, a spokesperson confirmed, though he couldn’t verify how much. Since-deleted videos on social media earlier this summer showed farmers pumping thousands of gallons of excess milk directly onto their fields, the Bloomberg report further reads.
  • Pete Hardin, the editor of Wisconsin-based dairy publication The Milkweed, told local media the state’s milk supply with no home could fill as many as 50 trailers a day, each carrying 6,000 to 7,000 gallons.
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