Education
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Pricing when your inputs won't hold still
Pricing & Margin for Specialty Cheese was built for a market that sits still. Here's how members are adapting the same framework to a summer where feed costs…
Read postYour margin and your time
A new survey of artisan cheesemakers found most losing product to quality issues every year. It's a margin problem as much as a craft one, and it's exactly…
Read postThe vocabulary your team doesn't share yet
Sensory Foundations isn't about developing a better palate. It's about giving a small team a shared vocabulary so 'off' means the same thing to everyone tasting the vat.
Read postWhat competition judges are actually scoring
Judging & Competition Preparation opens up the scorecard members rarely see until they've already entered. A look at what separates a good wheel from a winning one.
Read postThe counter nobody had time to plan
Many counters were built in a hurry over the last year and never revisited. A member-favorite course walks through the fixes that pay off first.
Read postJudging a wheel you can't hold
Our competition returns as a virtual event again this summer, which means judges are scoring cheese they can't pick up. A look at what the judging-prep course teaches…
Read postThe marketing course that made members rewrite their own story
A nine-week Storytelling & Provenance in Marketing cohort wraps up this week, and members told us the hardest assignment was writing their own farm's story down.
Read postSetting your price sheet before the market does
Class III milk has climbed for three straight months. Here's how to rework your price sheet before a supplier or a spreadsheet does it for you.
Read postPlanning a maturation room this spring
Spring humidity swings are the hardest season for a small maturation room to hold steady. Our Maturation Planning for Small Rooms course walks through why, and what to…
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