Racks and rows of Parmesan are cured. Moisture is removed slowly.
Lake Country Dairy is Dairy Foods’ 2018 Plant of the Year
The maker of Italian-style and alpine cheeses was one of 13 plants nominated for the honor.
Visitors to the Dairy Foods’ website cast their votes — more than 3,500 of them, in fact — and Schuman Cheese’s Lake Country Dairy came out on top. The Turtle Lake, Wis.-based plant, which makes award-winning Parmesan, Asiago, Romano, Fontal, mascarpone and a variety of alpine cheeses, bested 12 other nominated dairy facilities to become Dairy Foods’ 2018 Plant of the Year.
One unique aspect of Lake Country Dairy is its participation in a program with France’s Ministry of Agriculture’s national school of the dairy industry (ENIL, the Ecole nationale d’industrie laitiere). Schuman employees study in France, and a French professor and cheesemaker visits Turtle Lake and teaches traditional cheesemaking techniques.
Lake Country Dairy also is involved in industry-wide training courses through the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with other organizations.
The plant will be honored in the August issue of Dairy Foods. To learn more about the facility’s operations, visit https://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/92430-schuman-cheeses-lake-country-dairy-plant-makes-italian-style-alpine-cheeses
