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Certification, education, advocacy, events, industry news and the members behind them — written by the Federation, for the people who make, age, sell and buy the cheese.
Member spotlight: the blogger with no shop
Jamie Fuller doesn't run a creamery or a counter. Membership since 2023 joined a home-cheesemaking blog to a community that mostly assumed engagement meant a business behind it.
Read postThe styles crowding out American cheese
Year-end retail data shows paneer, burrata, and other international styles posting double-digit gains while American cheese slips. What that shift means for a small producer's case.
Read postStarting the cheesemonger credential this year
Certified Cheesemonger is our most retail-facing credential, valid four years, and January is when counter staff tend to actually sign up for it. Here's what it covers and…
Read postThe cave she keeps under fifty degrees
A three-generation farmstead operation on cutting the propane budget without cutting the wheel count, and why she called us before she called her lender.
Read postWhat January's block market is telling you
Federal price reporting for the first week of the year shows blocks and other dairy products firming, but for many small producers the number that matters most is…
Read postExport readiness workshop opens registration
The Cedar Export Readiness workshop lands in Brattleboro on February 4, and the paperwork it covers takes longer to gather than most members expect.
Read postThe case you inherit in January
Every wheel in your case on January 1 was ordered by someone making a bet weeks ago. What last year's demand shifts suggest about the bets worth making…
Read postThe credential to start the year with
Every January brings a wave of members asking which credential to start next. Competition Judge Accreditation has a specific window worth planning around now.
Read postReading a softer year-end block market
Cheese blocks and milk class prices both eased through December, while specialty cheese sales kept climbing for the year — two numbers members will want to hold side…
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