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2020 World Championship Cheese Contest

Gruyere from Switzerland named 2020 World Champion

The cheese, called Gourmino Le Gruyère AOP, is made by Michael Spycher of Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus for Gourmino AG.
March 6, 2020

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) said a Gruyere from Bern, Switzerland, was named the 2020 World Champion Cheese.


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Spain to host World Cheese Awards 2020

The program will be part of International Cheese Festival in Oviedo.
March 4, 2020

The Guild of Fine Food, Gillingham, England, said the World Cheese Awards (WCA) will be held in the Spanish Principality of Asturias this year, taking place in Oviedo on Nov. 4.


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Baker Cheese’s St. Cloud, Wis., plant produces over 200 SKUs under its own brand and for private label customers.

Baker Cheese’s cheese plant was built to stretch

Baker Cheese’s plant expansion was designed to handle the continually increasing demand for the company’s string cheese
anna boisseau
Anna Boisseau
March 4, 2020
Halfway through the family-owned Baker Cheese Inc. plant in St. Cloud, Wis., you'll come upon a kind of magical lazy river of cheese. Different sizes and varieties of the company's low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella string cheese float through a stream of brine.
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IDFA’s Cary Frye issues statement on scientists’ saturated-fat consensus statement

The scientists requested that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services consider lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake for the upcoming 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines.
March 3, 2020

In a consensus statement, a group of established U.S. and international nutrition scientists, including three former members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, requested the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services give serious and immediate consideration to lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake for the upcoming 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.


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Pictured are (top row, l to r) Kevin Baker, chief financial officer, and Eric Baker, vice president of marketing and sales; (bottom row, l to r) Jeff Baker, executive vice president, and Brian Baker, president and CEO.

Baker Cheese Inc. continues its cheesemaking legacy

The fourth-generation owners of Baker Cheese are expanding the family business while continuing to produce its trademark high-quality string cheese
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Anna Boisseau
March 3, 2020
Some people, including, most famously, Steve Jobs, say that it is better to focus on one thing and do it well. Off a nondescript state highway in east-central Wisconsin, Baker Cheese Inc. is proving the adage to be true.
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President pub cheese

Président releases three new cheese products.

The offerings include two types of cheese snacks.
February 26, 2020
Président, a brand of the Lactalis Group, Laval, France, said it released three new cheese and snacking products: creamy brie with truffles, French Pairing Plates in sweet and savory flavors, and Snacking Cups in Pub Cheese and Rondelé varieties.
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Dairy industry leaders visit Washington to advance dairy’s appropriations priorities

The group will spend time on Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to increase funding for the SNAP milk incentive program, continue important research and collaboration on ice cream food waste solutions, and more.
February 26, 2020

On Feb. 26, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) said dairy industry leaders from across the country were in Washington, D.C., to urge congressional leaders and appropriators to fund important research, a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) milk incentive pilot program, and dairy standards modernization at the FDA in fiscal year (FY) 2021.


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