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Member spotlight: the export line she checks twice
Renata Colby books cheese shipments overseas for a living. We asked her what six weeks of paperwork delays actually looked like from her desk.
Read postA webinar about the number on your label
Our November 25 webinar on water activity and shelf life covers a measurement most small creameries under-test. Here's what it will and won't answer.
Read postWhat clears first when the backlog breaks
The federal funding lapse that stalled comment periods and export paperwork this fall is finally moving toward resolution. Here's what we're watching first.
Read postWhat the sensory credential is actually testing
The Sensory Evaluation Certificate gets treated as a formality by members who already have a good palate. It's actually testing something else: whether you can write down what…
Read postThe standards up for repeal
A federal proposal to strike a batch of decades-old dairy standards of identity has quietly reopened for comment, and members who make the cheeses on the list should…
Read postWhat November's milk check is telling you
October's federal milk prices came in well below last year's on record production, and the margin cushion members leaned on all year is thinner than it looks heading…
Read postMember spotlight: the rep watching both sides
A regional sales rep spends her days between producers who are stretched thin and grocers watching every line item. She told us what that middle seat looks like…
Read postThe case that's quietly gone goat
Deli specialty cheese sales are up this year, and goat's milk styles are leading the growth. Here's how to think about adding one without gambling your whole case.
Read postThe comment period stuck behind the shutdown
A federal comment period on interstate cheese shipment closed weeks ago. With the shutdown into its fourth week, members are asking why nothing has moved since.
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