The USDA has 1.5 billion pounds of cheese stashed in caves in Missouri

And 355,000,000 pounds of butter.
Technically, the USDA owns just 300 million pounds of the cheese and is storing the remaining billion or so for a friend. Cave networks in the Kansas City area are naturally climate-controlled and so the USDA, which has a sizeable presence in the area, uses them for cheap cold storage. — Read the rest
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