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Article: Getting our goat: Mount Sterling cooperative brings dairy goat producers together
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- La Crosse Tribune
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- December 4, 2000
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MOUNT STERLING, Wis. - In this quiet community of 200 people, the Southwestern Wisconsin Dairy Goat Cooperative makes cheese and butter from goat's milk, for sale throughout the nation.
Most of what the plant produces is sold by distributors under their own private labels, said Kent Salmon, the coop's business manager. But the co-op hopes to boost sales of products bearing its own Mount Sterling Cheese Co-op label, with the help of a $49,400 two-year rural Business Opportunity Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development agency.
The money, which will be matched by the co-op's 37 members, will be used to design new labels and brochures; develop new cheese varieties; add ...