When extenuating circumstances arise, here are the cheeses that you can safely (and deliciously) keep around for a while. Simple economics dictates that for the stockpile to decrease, prices will need to drop to lure consumers back in. Buying The Least Perishable Cheeses to Stockpile In general, its best to buy smaller amounts of cheese at more frequent intervals. I don't know whether the Government is going to. Dairy Export Council reports, partly because the U.S. I also know in this last agricultural bill we probably are going to pile up more cheese, American cheese. And despite America’s passionate love for cheese, we still can’t consume enough. Cheesemakers have stockpiled 1.4 billion pounds of the stuff, the biggest cheese hoard since the government started keeping records a century ago. Meanwhile, the effect of trade disputes with China and Mexico has been surprisingly mild, the U.S. The federal government bought the unsold milk and processed it into cheese, which has a longer shelf life than milk. “It’s also the case that we’re seeing increased sales of kind of more exotic, specialty, European-style cheeses. “What has changed - and changed fairly noticeably and fairly recently - is people are turning away from processed cheese,” Andrew Novakovic, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, told Here & Now. Americans’ appetite for processed cheese is turning, however, in favor of more refined styles.
Thriving milk production, and a decline in cheese and dairy consumption, are the main reasons for the glut.Īccording to USDA data, milk production increased by 13 percent over the past decade, but Americans drank just 149 pounds of milk per capita in 2017, down from 247 pounds in 1975.ĭairy suppliers process surplus milk into cheese because it stays fresher, longer. The 6-percent increase came in spite of the fact Americans consumed an average of 37 pounds per capita in 2017, NPR reports. The stockpile is equivalent to around 900,000 cubic yards of cheese, Vox reports, or roughly the amount required to build a roquefort the size of the United States Capitol. America’s national cheese stockpile (yes, that actually exists, and not just in our dreams) hit an all-time high last year, with the surplus reaching 1.39 billion pounds in June 2018.
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