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The paperwork that proves the exemption
Federal food-safety rules exempt many small dairy processors from the full preventive-controls plan, but the exemption isn't automatic — and members keep asking us to explain how to…
Read postThe summer side of a swab map
A farmstead quality manager in the upper Midwest explains why her environmental monitoring program looks completely different in August than it did last winter.
Read postWhat Cave Management actually teaches
Late-summer heat is the hardest season on a small aging room, and our Cave Management course is built around exactly that stretch of the calendar.
Read postFive weeks left on the safety net
The current federal margin-support window for dairy producers closes next month, and members who haven't signed up are running out of runway to decide.
Read postA deadline worth putting on the calendar
Enrollment in this year's dairy margin safety-net program runs six more weeks, and this week's numbers are a reminder of why the paperwork is worth the trouble.
Read postRind development starts this week
Our Rind Development & Washing course begins its Clover cohort today — here is what the six weeks actually cover and who tends to get the most out…
Read postThe comment window closes Monday
A federal comment period on a proposed tariff list touching most imported cheese closes next Monday, and we want your operational experience in the record.
Read postCheese rebounds, whey tells a different story
Cash cheese bounced back this week after three weeks of declines, but a slowdown in whey exports tied to overseas hog losses is quietly reshaping which plants have…
Read postThe distributor caught between two numbers
A regional cheese distributor told us what it's actually like to buy into a market this tight — where the spot price and the customer's price expectation stopped…
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