Michigan Milk Producers Association comes out on top in cheese competition
Its Heritage Ridge Creamery pepper-Jack cheese was named the Grand Champion in NMPF’s Championship Cheese Contest.
Pepper-Jack cheese produced under the Heritage Ridge Creamery brand at Michigan Milk Producers Association’s (MMPA) Middlebury, Ind., cheese plant was recently named the Grand Champion in the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF) Champion Cheese Contest. The award was presented by NMPF at the federation’s annual meeting, which was held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Anaheim, Calif.
The annual contest includes cheese made by dairy cooperatives belonging to NMPF, MMPA noted. A record 194 entries totaling 3,070 pounds of cheese products were submitted into the 2017 contest. Heritage Ridge pepper-jack placed first in the hot or spicy cheese category and then went on to win the overall best cheese prize, MMPA said. This is the first year MMPA has entered a product in the cheese contest.
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