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Article: Cheese plant aids 'can'-do way of life

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June 1, 1998
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CASHTON, Wis.--You won't see milk tanker trucks pull up at the Wisconsin Hill & Valley Cheese Co-op, an Amish-owned cheese plant 5 miles southeast of Cashton. The milk still arrives in old-fashioned 10-gallon cans, from farms where well water is used to keep the cans cool.

But production continues to increase at the plant, which opened in March 1983. It produced a record 4.4 million pounds of cheese last year, and production probably will increase 2 percent this year, said Kevin Everhart, plant manager and vice president of Hill & Valley Cheese Inc. "We continually add farms," he explained.

The number of co-op members continues to grow slowly. About 230 Amish farmers and one ...

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