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Article: Appetite for cheese keeps industry busy; California may grab title of top producer, but there's plenty of demand to go around
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2004
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Appetite for cheese keeps industry busy
California may grab title of top producer, but there's plenty of
demand to go around
Monty Python had it right: Blessed are the cheesemakers -- at
least in business.
For decades, Americans have been packing away increasing amounts
of cheese, and last year was no exception. Cheese consumption,
according to a new study, hit a record 8.8 billion pounds in 2003.
That's more than 30 pounds for every man, woman and child in the
United States.
The latest analysis comes out of California -- Wisconsin's chief
rival for the country's cheese-producing crown -- but still holds
good news for America's Dairyland.
"It's been a great thing for Wisconsin," Karen ...
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