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Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese’s plant is a model of sustainability

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese’s plant is a model of sustainability

Powered by green energy, the company’s cheese plant transforms fresh milk into handcrafted fresh cheese in hours instead of days.
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Kathie Canning
March 3, 2021
The first thing most visitors see as they draw near to the fresh cheese plant operated by Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese LLC is a colorful, hand-painted 52-square-foot mural depicting the unique farm-to-consumer journey of the family-run company's products.
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Don’t miss CheeseExpo Global Online

Don’t miss CheeseExpo Global Online

The virtual trade show is packed full of educational opportunities.
February 25, 2021
The biennial CheeseExpo trade show - hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) and the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) - will occur virtually this year from April 6-8, 2021, as CheeseExpo Global Online.
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Fend off bacteriophage in cheese plants

Certain preventive measures can reduce phage presence.
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John A. Lucey
January 12, 2021
Cheese is a "living" food due to the presence of different types of bacteria and sometimes yeast and mold, depending on the cheese variety. Like any other living thing, the bacteria used in cheese can get sick.
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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 facility is Dairy Foods’ 2020 Plant of the Year winner

Nearly 4,000 votes were cast in this year’s poll, and the string cheese processor’s plant came out on top.
August 2, 2020
On behalf of the entire Baker Cheese team, we are honored to be voted the Dairy Foods 2020 "Plant of the Year." Our plant’s success is directly impacted by the incredible dedication and talents of our 250-plus employees and the quality of milk we receive from our local farms. These two critical components allow us to partner with an amazing list of customers that value our award-winning and world-class string cheese.
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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
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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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It’s time for FDA to act on cheese standards

Outdated regulations put the U.S. cheese industry at a competitive disadvantage
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Cary Frye
February 20, 2020
Cheesemakers in the United States producing specific varieties of cheese, including cheddar, mozzarella, Parmesan and pasteurized process cheese, must adhere to FDA’s food standards of identity.
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Art of Cheese Festival

Wisconsin to host first-ever Art of Cheese Festival

The event, presented by Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, will include food, classes, tours and more.
January 21, 2020

In honor of National Cheese Lovers Day, Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, headquartered in Madison, Wis., said it would host the first ever Art of Cheese Festival Aug. 14-16, 2020.


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Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, Waterloo, Wis.

The first thing most visitors see as they draw near to the fresh cheese plant operated by Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese LLC is a colorful, hand-painted 52-square-foot mural depicting the unique farm-to-consumer journey of the family-run company’s products.

BehindtheScenes

This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!

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Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery - Ellsworth, Wis.

The cooperative has operated a plant in Ellsworth since 1910, but the facility’s cheesemaking operations began in the 1960s. In the 1980s, Ellsworth began expanding its cheese curd production beyond just local sales. The company now manufactures 180 SKUs in Ellsworth. (It also operates plants in Comstock, Wis., and New London, Wis.).

BehindtheScenes

This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!

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Rumiano Cheese Co., Crescent City, Calif.

Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant produces award-winning organic and conventional cheeses, along with whey protein concentrate (WPC-80%), dried edible lactose and European-style butter.

BehindtheScenes

This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!

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