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Article: Iowa cheese co-op helps preserve a way of life.(VALUE-ADDED CORNER)(Reprint)
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Like the blue cheese it produces, the Golden Ridge Cheese Cooperative had to age a while before it was ready to go.
Founded five years ago by 40 Old Order Amish dairy farmers in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, Golden Ridge was plagued by a series of production problems before the first blue cheese wheels were shipped from its 12,500-square-foot plant north of Cresco, Iowa, last January.
The Amish farmers invested more of their own capital into the plant, for a total of $1 million, and brought in Neville McNaughton, a New Zealand native and cheese consultant who now lives in St. Louis. Like the blue mold that turns the Amish milk into cheese, McNaughton's ...
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