milkshed

American  

[milk-shed] / ˈmɪlkˌʃɛd /

noun

1. a region producing milk for a specific community.

   the St. Louis milkshed.

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Etymology

Origin of milkshed

1925–30, milk + shed ², on the model of watershed

Example Sentences

In Veracruz, Mexico, after retailers were found to be selling 35,000 liters of milk a day � 10,000 more than they get from all the cows in the Veracruz milkshed � a Dairymen's Association spokesman stated: "We don't want to accuse anyone of watering the milk, but we think the situation merits investigation."

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The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job.

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Best news about milk was that the shortage was breaking down the milkshed barriers which local dairy lobbies had fostered for years to keep out competition from other sections.

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The plea that only local milkshed milk is sanitary had become an outright racket, and the racketeers are afraid that after the war it will be hard to get the old milkshed barriers raised again.

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This month, through the Federal-State Milk Marketing Agency which controls producer prices in the milkshed, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard upped the price of fluid milk* to $2.65 per cwt.

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