The pandemic's economic impacts include a drop in home construction and timber sales. One California sawmill operator says he’s had to cut production in half as a result.
Grocery stores and farm groups have been urging people to buy only the food they can use, but a number of staple products have seen surges of demand, including dairy.
Certified farmers’ markets are now defined as an essential service for distribution of food supplies. Many of the markets were temporarily closed, have now reopened.
U.S. exporters shipped over 184-thousand tons of milk powders, cheese, whey products, lactose and butterfat to overseas buyers in January, a 21% jump from last year.
Milk markets have been rallying to the upside lately. As of a week ago Friday contracts in August, September, October and November were all trading over $17 per hundred weight.
Like something out of a science fiction movie, meteorologists across Southern Cal. spotted a large storm-like signal on their radars that made no sense with calm weather.
Some of the largest U.S. cheese companies say the new trade agreement is an empty win if the administration doesn't dial down the steel and aluminum tariffs.