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Get ready for the Alpine Styles workshop
Registration is open for Birch cohort's hands-on Alpine Styles workshop this September. Here's who it's for and what to bring.
Read postWhat your margin actually owes you this fall
With milk prices leveling off and input costs still climbing, Pricing & Margin for Specialty Cheese is drawing a bigger cohort than usual this cycle.
Read postThe label that shrank with the package
As packaging costs push some members toward smaller wheels and wedges, the federation is fielding a fresh round of questions about net-weight labeling standards.
Read postRecord prices are cooling. Your costs aren't.
Class III milk has slid off its spring peak, and cheddar blocks have leveled out. That's not the relief it sounds like once packaging and energy costs are…
Read postWhat the Advanced Affinage Certificate actually covers
Finished Affinage Fundamentals and wondering what's next? The Advanced Affinage Certificate is built for exactly that question, and a September workshop is a good place to start.
Read postThe counter that started pricing by the wedge
A retail cheesemonger member rebuilt her whole case pricing around the wedge instead of the wheel this summer. Here's what changed and why it stuck.
Read postPrices cooled off. Did your margin follow?
Wholesale milk and block prices eased through July after a record spring. Here's what the pullback means for your price sheet and your case.
Read postThe label question nobody answers the same way
Members keep asking the federation the same labeling question in different words. We looked at why the answer is harder than it should be, and what we're doing…
Read postThe case is getting more crowded
Specialty cheese is taking up more of the case than it used to, even as everyday cheese sales soften. What that shift actually means for a small producer's…
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