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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.
The patchwork under your shipment label
State raw-milk rules keep moving even when the federal aged-cheese exemption doesn't, and that gap is exactly where our shipment petition is trying to help.
Read postRenewed from a kitchen table
A one-person farmstead operation nearly let her membership lapse last year. She renewed anyway, and now credits the federation's online coursework with keeping her business on track.
Read postWhat the Brooklyn room actually taught us
Our first in-person workshop in over a year wrapped this week in Brooklyn, and the lesson wasn't about defects — it was about how much members had been…
Read postClass III comes back to earth
July's Class III milk price fell to roughly $16.49 per hundredweight, well below last year's pandemic-distorted peak — a return to a more normal, if still confusing, market.
Read postThe aging clock nobody has changed
The federal minimum aging period for raw-milk cheese has sat unchanged for decades while the science underneath it keeps moving. Here's where the debate stands and how to…
Read postThe credential members are starting with
Enrollment in the Cheese Foundations Certificate has kept climbing through the pivot to online coursework, and a lot of this year's cohort has never worked in cheese before.
Read postThe vocabulary your team doesn't share yet
Sensory Foundations isn't about developing a better palate. It's about giving a small team a shared vocabulary so 'off' means the same thing to everyone tasting the vat.
Read postA workshop with a room again
Our Lark Defect Diagnosis workshop returns to Brooklyn on July 6, in person, for members who've spent a year and a half learning defects from a screen instead…
Read postWhat competition judges are actually scoring
Judging & Competition Preparation opens up the scorecard members rarely see until they've already entered. A look at what separates a good wheel from a winning one.
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