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 ...

States have their own laws that are specific to the region, and some of them are downright unusual, especially as they ...

For us, it was a shorter trip. For two days, we reveled in Swiss culture, history, music and food. On Sunday, we left “Little ...

The Minnesota-based cooperative’s ad campaign aims to connect consumers to its farmer-owners through joining the farmcore ...

All three are contenders in the 2024 Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest, a competition where online voters will decide the winner. The contest's 130 initial products have been announced ...

After debuting last year, the Art of Cheese Festival returns to Madison from Sept. 25 to 28. The schedule is packed with dairy-themed events to celebrate Wisconsin’s many artisan cheeses ...

Factory farms in Wisconsin produce 33 billion pounds of waste every year, about four times the amount of waste created by the state’s human population, according to a new report by Food and ...

Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Andrew Iverson emphasized the ground game strategy in the battleground that ...