it's heartbreaking as millions of
Americans lose their jobs and wait in
line at food banks farmers are
destroying their crops the dairy
industry has been particularly hit hard
by the coronavirus crisis consumption of
milk is way down because schools and
restaurants are closed
we were there as New York State dairy
farmer patch a Grimshaw poured his
entire production of milk for the day
down the drain he's done it every day
for three weeks estimated loss ninety
thousand dollars
we've been dumping we've probably given
away five hundred gallons of milk so far
to the public because legally we can't
sell raw milk but we can give it away
so anything we can do to help our
community he says it's not practical to
stop milking his cows there's no turn in
the cows off to get up every morning
knowing you're gonna lose money and have
to work just as hard as you did the day
before across the USA other farmers like
Paul Allen of Florida are also doing the
unthinkable so far we glossed over four
million pounds of green beans over five
million pounds of cabbage and I have a
farmer friend that left ten million
pounds of tomatoes millions of dollars
in food have been donated but farmers
say there is only so much perishable
food that charities can handle due to
limited refrigeration he says the
industry is just not able to give food
to those in need the charity system just
can't handle can't handle it even
flowers are being thrown out in the
Netherlands 140 million tulips have been
destroyed the entire season which runs
from Easter through Mother's Day has
been lost
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