MALONE: Again, our dairy economist Andy Novakovic. Lets just call it tunnel vision. These limestone caverns arent the only channels running under the city. MALONE: And so our country has a tradition of programs to help farmers. China props up pork prices by buying surplus for its frozen pork reserve. Old Kansas City Limestone Mines Home To Everything From Pickup - WBUR Lever 2, more demand - you could try to convince the public that they want to drink more milk. In the 2000s, you could still take an official tour and potentially find a way in for a D.I.Y. At Kanopolis park, near the lake of the same name, there's a short trail from a parking area that leads you through the brush into a clearing. Through our sister company, Cold Zone, we are able to store refrigerated food, such as cheese for our tenants. And then on the other side, the government tried to replace some of their artificial demand for milk with new real demand for milk. Why Did the U.S. Government Amass More Than a Billion Pounds of Cheese? The National Archives' Central Plains regional archives is moving into the heart of Kansas City's cultural and historic area. government cheese caves kansas city - daxasys.com But cheese doesn't travel well, so the government landed on a third option. But this was not putting even a dent in the surplus. SNOOP DOGG: You don't buy it. They feature an abundance of ores, as well as hostile mobs that spawn in the darkness. Word is the tunnel sustained water damage, so time will tell if it sees the light of day. The two larger caves were used by the Faris family as a spring house, generator room and, a schoolhouse as well. By 1984, the U.S. storage facilities contained 1.2 billion pounds, or roughly five pounds of cheese for every American. And Congress is like wait - no, we also love the farmers. Very, very expensive cheese. The Big Cheese Lie: No, The U.S. Isn't Sitting On 1.4B Pound Surplus MALONE: Until there was no more room for you to be in this room? To do so, however, required a serious upfront investment. 1 By Kimberlee N. Ried Enlarge Plan for the National Archives at Kansas City. Like anything you grow up with and then lose subsequently access to, government cheese is parked in a prominent spot in the memories of its former consumers. MALONE: Releasing a tsunami of surplus cheddar the wrong way would push the price of cheese and milk way down. DUFFIN: But the problem, Andy says, was that a lot of this was not easy-to-give-away cheese. Yes, the Government Really Does Stash Billions of Pounds of Cheese in DUFFIN: It is a case study in what happens when price controls run full speed into the realities of the market. The year was 1981, and President Ronald Reagan had a cheese problem. But what Andy Novakovic knew is that it's one thing to provide stability, it is another to step into the market in a big way at maybe the wrong time because playing with price controls is playing with fire. Although other facilities like SubTropolis exist, there are none on the same such scale.
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