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Cheese yield, or the product obtained from milk, is crucial for optimizing plant operations. Even minor yield differences significantly affect revenue. With the increased use of concentrated milk, monitoring efficiency has become even more essential, according to Dr. John Lucey.

From running the pasteurizer to pumping fresh milk to adding the all-important starter culture to putting the cheese in forms and pressing it down, Master Cheesemaker Tony Hook is hands-on when crafting 70 flavors of aged cheddars, blues and mixed milk cheeses that bear the name of Hook’s Cheese.

Cheesemakers are constantly striving to make high quality cheese by avoiding the occurrence of any unwanted attributes or defects.

First District Association accelerates cheese production with world’s longest, three-story cheese belt. The new cheese plant and barrel packaging room has the capacity to fill a 500-pound barrel of cheese in 43 seconds.  

Dairy processor prides itself on “flavor leadership” in creating hard and soft cheeses.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., and Green Bay, Wis.-based BelGioioso Cheese Inc. signed transactional agreements to sell and purchase, respectively, the Upstate Farms Cheese LLC facility located in Campbell, N.Y.

On May 5, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Hilmar Cheese Company Inc. jointly announced the Hilmar Cheese Company’s decision to build a new state-of-the-art cheese and whey protein processing plant in Dodge City, Kan.

Rumiano Cheese Co., California’s oldest family-owned cheese company and a pioneer in organic and artisanal cheese, said construction has begun on its new 46,766-square-foot cheese processing and packaging plant one hour north of Sacramento in Willows, Calif.

To see how White Clover Dairy grew up to become Arla Foods, it helps to look at a series of aerial photos hung in the entrance hallway to this cheese plant in Hollandtown, Wis. In the first image there is a farmhouse near the original plant. Later images show how expansions to the plant crept closer and closer to the house. Eventually, the plant completely surrounds the farmhouse, and in the last image, the house is gone. These additions over the years turned the facility into a 110,000-square-foot plant.