# Why farmers are dumping milk during coronavirus shutdown - WHYY

> Some Pennsylvania and New York dairy farmers are dumping milk because processors lack capacity to handle the excess, even as some grocery stores ration purchases. Plants that serve grocery channels are at maximum capacity while foodservice demand has collapsed. Farmers cannot store raw milk for long.

- Date: 2020-04-07 · published 2020-04-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53781-why-farmers-are-dumping-milk-during-coronavirus-shutdown-whyy
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Processing bottlenecks combined with lost foodservice demand create a supply glut that depresses farm-gate milk prices across the US.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bearish ▼

## Sources

- whyy.org: https://whyy.org/articles/the-dairy-section-is-often-empty-so-why-are-farmers-dumping-milk/

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