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Got Milk!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When was the last time a bottle of milk was delivered to your home?  Do you even remember that milk was home delivered? Wades Dairy Inc. of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a family dairy that has been around since 1893. They delivered butter and milk for over a century to more than 3,000 homes.  Their last delivery was back in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today with folks self-quarantining<\/a> they have gone back to home delivery and they even offer over 100 products from dairy and baked goods to meats. Since many individuals are not drinking milk, they have diversified their product line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Wade Jr., president of Wade\u2019s Dairy told the Wall Street Journal: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  \u201cI never in a million years would have thought home delivery would come back like this\u201d. Cow\u2019s milk is kind of a blackout here. I\u2019m hopeful the tide will turn one day, and people will say, \u2018Why am I spending so much money on oat milk?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What Egg Shortage?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people have decided that they are not going to wait for the food supply chain to reboot in these pandemic times.  They have decided to purchase backyard live chickens and chicken coops. In fact, sales of live chickens, increased a whopping 500% since the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google searches for \u201cegg-laying hens<\/em>\u201d are also increasing as backyards are filling up with eggs.  Youtube has educational videos on how to build a coop and tutorials on the entire topic of laying hens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The website rent the chicken<\/a> will rent chickens to families. Their mission is \u201cFamilies helping families to bring one food source to your table<\/em>\u201d. They have recently launched a crowdfunding campaign named \u201cGive the Chicken<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A somewhat humorous footnote in raising chickens at home was recently in the news. While at work in the office, Americans have called numerous customer support numbers and at the other end of the line was an employee working from home. The customer support person was in India or the Philippines working from a rural home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A frequent sound that Americans kept hearing was the crack of dawn crowing of the backyard rooster, common in those locals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now when answering calls from home, clients across America may be hearing that morning crowing in our own neighborhoods, if the trend continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n