Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RaZ]

Here is one reason I love living up here. The Ag production statistics in the paper. The headlines read:
Chicken and egg numbers up from a year ago.
Michigan potato production up; nationally up as well.
Michigan October milk production down slightly.

Can anyone tell me why milk is measured in pounds but sold by the gallon? The article says that daily cow production was 70.8 pounds per cow. How gallons does that equal?

 

[rachelsflock]

Oh if you lived close I'd take the kale off your hands for my rabbits.
Hate liver and onions. Every time I was pregnant, my mom would make me eat that crap. But, now I want to make some Borcht (sp) soup. Love that. Since us kids didn't like beets, my mom made another version of it, so that's what I'm going to make, very soon.

Oh man, liver and onions while pregnant would NOT be good. Everything tastes wrong then, and it would taste terrible no matter what you did to it. I understand being turned off to it, or even just not liking it period.
I'd totally give you that kale...except for that silly distance and time factor.

 

[1muttsfan]

A gallon of milk is 8#. So average daily production is just under 9 gallons.

30 years ago a good cow produced about 40# per day. Genetic selection and the use of BST (the hormone that stimulates milk production) had more than doubled that. A really good cow can produce over 100# of milk a day early in her lactation.

And that is your farming lesson for today.

 

[aart]

Can anyone tell me why milk is measured in pounds but sold by the gallon?

I've always wondered this too.

 

[RaZ]

A gallon of milk is 8#.

And that is your farming lesson for today.

I just weighed a gallon of whole milk on my bathroom scale. It was 8.8#.
I'm either getting a 10% bonus of milk
Or my scale reads 10% high. Meaning that I weigh less than what I thought.

 

[aart]

I just weighed a gallon of whole milk on my bathroom scale. It was 8.8#.
I'm either getting a 10% bonus of milk
Or my scale reads 10% high. Meaning that I weigh less than what I thought.

Sorry dude:

 

[1muttsfan]

Yes, 8 is an approximation that makes estimates easier. Milk weighs a little more than water due to the solids in it.

 

[Folly's place]

Besides, you weighed it in a container, so unless you subtracted the weight of the empty container too, you loose! Water is about 8.3 pounds per gallon, and milk will be slightly heavier.
Mary

 

[RaZ]

You guys sure jumped on that.
And completely missed the joke.

 

[aart]

You guys sure jumped on that.
And completely missed the joke.

Wasn't the joke that you hoped you weighed less?
It was funny.
Oh, BTW, an empty gallon milk jug weighs 2.5oz.