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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by masonic on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:14AM (#21978043) 

  production was threatened. So civilian demand was boosted.
That makes no sense. When production is "threatened", artificially boosting demand would be the exactly wrong thing to do.
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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:40AM (#21978157)
> When production is "threatened", artificially boosting demand would be the exactly wrong thing to do

There was wartime demand. Dairy farmers invested to meet it. War ends. Demand goes down. That capital must now be written off, re-purposed, or the demand re-started. We chose the last option.

Production as in productive capital or productive potential.

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