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Wisconsin is home to the world's most award-winning cheeses--more than 450 different varieties, types, and styles of cheeses. Dairy farming produces $20 billion each year for the state of Wisconsin. It is the first state to establish a dairy research center and is the only state which requires licensing to make cheese and has a Master Cheesemaker Certification Program. Since 90% of Wisconsin's milk goes into cheese, Wisconsin has made standard for cheese making and overall dairy product quality the most stringent. |
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There is a rapidly growing segment of the dairy industry in Wisconsin known as "farmstead cheeses" which has given a new meaning to the phrase, “from cow to cheese.”
Gingerbread Jersey is one of these farmstead cheese operations. Sitting on a 53' semi trailer, our cheese plant is called “Cheese on Wheels” -- a complete mobile cheese processing unit, capable of producing and packaging up to 200 pounds of cheese per day. Please click on the images below to see the slideshow of our cheese processing. (For Internet Explorer users, please click on the second image.) |
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We have also developed a milk transport and delivery system consisting of a 500 gallon Zero bulk tank completely enclosed within an enclosed mobile trailer with an automatic wash system in place to transport the milk and hold it until needed.
| Next to the cheese plant is our retail store which is equipped with coolers and a ‘shipping station’. It has ample parking room. |  |
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We offer ultimately fresh, premium cheese and warm, squeaky fresh curds made while you watch. We also have a cappella singing CDs and tapes, local art and locally produced honey and maple syrup, a small variety of gifts, books, and educational products.
To hear more about Gingerbread Jersey and its operation, please click on the images below. These are live TV interviews that were broadcast on November 20, 2008 on WEAU13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Rita Houser,Regional Program Manager with the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board in Eau Claire, and Virgil Schunk from Gingerbread Jersey talk about Wisconsin’s cheesemaking industry. |
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Carolyn Schunk talks about the kinds of cheese that Gingerbread Jersey makes. |
From Wisconsin Dairy News - July 2009 - |
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Gingerbread Jersey Cheese has gained popularity and publicity through the years.
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