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The cheese case keeps sliding into September
Block cheddar hasn't found a floor yet, and a last-minute federal decision to keep school meals free through the end of the year is reshaping institutional demand instead…
Read postThe cave she evacuated instead of defended
A coastal member spent Wednesday deciding what to save and what to leave, then evacuated ahead of the storm anyway. We talked to her about how she made…
Read postWhat the affinage credential tests right now
The Advanced Affinage Certificate was built around in-person cave assessment. We looked at how the credential still works when nobody can watch you turn a wheel.
Read postTwo storms and a truck full of cheese
With two storm systems stacked in the Gulf this week, we walked through what a coastal disruption actually does to a refrigerated cheese shipment and a wholesale order…
Read postWhat the sensory certificate doesn't teach you
The Sensory Evaluation Certificate trains your palate on cultured flavor, not ambient contamination. A smoke-heavy week on the West Coast is a good reminder of where that line…
Read postThe relief list just got longer
The federal direct-payment program for pandemic-hit farms added nearly five dozen eligible commodities this week and pushed its application deadline into September. Here's who that actually helps.
Read postA smoke line off the map
A lightning-sparked wildfire outbreak has put hazardous air quality across a large stretch of the West Coast this week, and members there are asking questions our storm playbook…
Read postA webinar for a month when the margin is thin
Costing a Make 2020 goes live September 9, and after a week of soft block prices and storm-driven feed uncertainty, the timing is better than we planned for.
Read postThe cave that lost power for nine days
A small farmstead creamery in eastern Iowa spent this week running a generator off a borrowed fuel truck to hold its cave steady. Here's what she did in…
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