Plant of the Year
Lake Country Dairy is Dairy Foods’ 2018 Plant of the Year
The maker of Italian-style and alpine cheeses was one of 13 plants nominated for the honor.
Racks and rows of Parmesan are cured. Moisture is removed slowly.
Visitors to the Dairy Foods’ website cast their votes — more than 3,500 of them, in fact — and Schuman Cheese’s Lake Country Dairy came out on top. The Turtle Lake, Wis.-based plant, which makes award-winning Parmesan, Asiago, Romano, Fontal, mascarpone and a variety of alpine cheeses, bested 12 other nominated dairy facilities to become Dairy Foods’ 2018 Plant of the Year.
One unique aspect of Lake Country Dairy is its participation in a program with France’s Ministry of Agriculture’s national school of the dairy industry (ENIL, the Ecole nationale d’industrie laitiere). Schuman employees study in France, and a French professor and cheesemaker visits Turtle Lake and teaches traditional cheesemaking techniques.
Lake Country Dairy also is involved in industry-wide training courses through the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with other organizations.
The plant will be honored in the August issue of Dairy Foods. To learn more about the facility’s operations, visit https://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/92430-schuman-cheeses-lake-country-dairy-plant-makes-italian-style-alpine-cheeses
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