The Capital Times, 09.28.08
The Wisconsin dairy industry goes back well more than 100 years.
First there was the cow that provided milk for the family that was clearing the stumps out of land that would be turned into farmland. Then farm wives made butter and eventually cheese from the extra
milk.
In the late 1850s the first cheese factory in Wisconsin began operations and cheese making became a major economic factor in the state as farmers joined in forming dairy cooperatives and
entrepreneurs built cheese factories...
.
The Wisconsin dairy industry goes back well more than 100 years.
First there was the cow that provided milk for the family that was clearing the stumps out of land that would be turned into farmland. Then farm wives made butter and eventually cheese from the extra
milk.
In the late 1850s the first cheese factory in Wisconsin began operations and cheese making became a major economic factor in the state as farmers joined in forming dairy cooperatives and
entrepreneurs built cheese factories...
.