Canada Is Out of Butter
Canada is facing a butter shortage going into the holiday season. This due to a smart consumer shift from margarine to real butter:
CBC News: Butter shortage in Canada due to consumer shift from margarine, says group
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For the last few years here in Canada I have been getting hand-churned, cultured butter from a local cheese and yoghurt family business. I consult with Ruth and Daniel regularly as to grass conditions when each load of cream arrives, as this affects when and how much I buy. This year they could only secure cream for one large batch of butter. I don't have enough supply in the freezer now for the winter.
A growing problem is what to do with the increasing surplus of skimmed milk.
Thank goodness I reside in Vancouver...lots of local grass fed butter providers. The main grocery stores in Vancouver have also started retailing a grass fed butter from New Zealand, which surprised me because I thought the dairy board had influenced regulators to prohibit all forms of imported butter products.
And lots of Canadians drive over the border into the US to smuggle Kerrygold, too.