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Yes, it’s true (more or less). In Missouri, specifically in Springfield, there is an underground facility where the U.S. government stores a massive amount of cheese as part of the National Cheese Reserve. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is estimated to have around 1.4 billion pounds (not trillions) of cheese stored across the country, with Missouri being one of the key locations.

This enormous stockpile of cheese is the result of agricultural policies and dairy subsidies that began in the 1980s when the government purchased large amounts of dairy products to stabilize prices. Since then, the cheese has been stored and used in food assistance programs.

So yes, there are mountains of cheese stored by the government, but the total isn’t exclusive to Missouri—it’s distributed across multiple storage facilities in the U.S.