Member Spotlight
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The farmstead doing math by the thermometer
A farmstead producer in the upper Midwest walked us through what a hot June actually cost her, and why she's checking the weather forecast before she checks her…
Read postMember spotlight: the counter's biggest weekend
A cheesemonger at a small specialty shop walks us through how she plans the case, the staffing, and the tasting samples for the retail weekend that outsells every…
Read postMember spotlight: a lambing-season cheesemaker
One of our members runs a sheep dairy in the Southern Hemisphere, where June means lambing season and a dry stretch that's already cut into the year's milk…
Read postMember spotlight: four months into the chair
A composite of members who took over committee chairs this year, on what the seat actually asks of you once a hard season for small creameries lands on…
Read postMember spotlight: a quality manager's hard spring
A quality manager at a small farmstead creamery has watched her own hay bill start to outrun the cheese case. She told us what that's actually meant for…
Read postMember spotlight: the maker who cut the herd, not the line
Feed and energy costs pushed one farmstead member to a decision she didn't want to make this spring: fewer cows, the same cheese lineup. She told us why…
Read postThe distributor rebuilding a route around fewer stops
When two farmstead accounts on her route closed this year, one of our distributor members didn't cut the route. She rebuilt it, and it's carrying more cheese than…
Read postMember spotlight: the two delivery routes she merged into one
Fuel and refrigeration costs pushed one regional distributor to merge two delivery routes into one this spring. She told us what it took to keep every account on…
Read postMember spotlight: becoming the maker
A longtime head cheesemaker retired this year. The assistant who'd worked beside her stepped into the role sooner than either of them planned, and told us what she…
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