With increasing demand, more dairy farmers moved production from the farmstead into the factory. By 1870, Wisconsin had 54 cheese factories. Despite hundreds of dairy farms closing in recent years ...

Participants in a Spanish language cheesemaking short course try mozzarella cheese bathed in a smoke brine. The ...

While family-run Hook’s Cheese only has seven full-time employees, this 8,500-square-foot cheesemaking plant — originally built as a livery stable to the Washington Hotel in 1875 and is on the ...

According to Tony Hook, owner of Hooks Cheese, it’s a matter of competition. Over 100 years ago, when Wisconsin was overtaking New York as the dairy state, Wisconsin dairy farmers were trying to ...

A blaze at a Wisconsin dairy factory caused melted butter to flow ... Associated Milk Producers is the largest cheese co-operative in the US, according to its website, with 1,000 employees.