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Article: Cheese exchange closes its doors Trading to resume next week after shift from Green Bay to Chicago
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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After 41 years as a national hub for the buying and selling of
cheddar cheese, the controversial National Cheese Exchange in Green
Bay closed its doors Friday.
The forum used by some of the biggest cheese traders in the
country, including Kraft Foods, now moves out of the Dairy State and
into Illinois, where a new cash market for cheese will start
Thursday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
"This is the Dairy State, and it would have been nice to keep the
cheese exchange in the Dairy State," said Selena Salmon, the
exchange's clerk, who posts transactions on the trading board. "I
think people were sad to see it go. But they realized because of
all the harassment toward the exchange ...