IT CAN NEVER BE BIG ENOUGH
Just How Big Is America's 'Strategic Cheese Reserve'?
(Thanks to Asher Scheiner)
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Apparently it's 1.5 billion pounds, which I'm guessing is about a 30 day supply?
Posted by: cfjk | October 28, 2022 at 10:30 AM
Just lower the price of cheese in the stores.
Posted by: Mike Smith | October 28, 2022 at 10:38 AM
So why is there a cheese reserve? Is there a chocolate reserve? A coffee reserve? A strawberry reserve? What about a beer reserve?
Posted by: Rod | October 28, 2022 at 11:44 AM
Who manages the cheese reserve? Is it the "Big Cheese" we hear about periodically?
Posted by: Bill in Seminole | October 28, 2022 at 12:14 PM
Yet another item in my hometown‘s claim to fame…
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2537392929986/there-s-a-1-4-billion-pound-strategic-cheese-reserve-hidden-in-a-cave-below-springfield-missouri
Posted by: Death Row Doc | October 28, 2022 at 12:47 PM
Last year we were warned of a drop in the cheese reserve and they raised prices.
This year, inflation/global warming/pandemic supply chain issues raised prices again, but on everything.
Looking at the YOY graph, we have steadied the total reserve (we were able to lose in 2021 without significant effect).
I agree with @Mike Smith that they can lower the price of cheese, but also its key ingredient, milk. It's gone up $2/gallon. Come on.
Posted by: MOTW | October 28, 2022 at 01:13 PM
Why, it's so much government cheese that you can't store it in your van livin' down by the river!
Posted by: Matt Foley | October 28, 2022 at 01:29 PM
It makes my heart sing to know that excess cheese is handled not dissimilarly to nuclear waste.
Posted by: Evil Mr M | October 28, 2022 at 02:16 PM
Just another one of my hometown, Springfield, MO's claim to fame:
https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan
Posted by: Death Row Doc | October 28, 2022 at 03:12 PM
Just another one of many claims to fame of my hometown, Springfield Missouri
Posted by: Death Row Doc | October 28, 2022 at 03:27 PM