Even worse - dairy farms here had to dump milk due to overproduction because there wasn't enough capacity for milk processing to turn into cream and other products. Something is really broken in dairy supply chain and the production lines here. Cream is still not available in our region and hasn't been for months.

Some crazy stuff in this article by an Ag producer: https://agmoos.com/2021/12/10/supply-and-demand-are-the-real...

And competition between cheese, cream, ice cream makers for tight milk availability: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/heres-why-the-us-is-facing-a-b...

> It’s amazing how local diary still is for many things.

It's not really surprising, it doesn't ship well or age well (at least, not as liquid). You can do things like UHT but it negatively affects quality and makes it useless for a lot of things.