Cheese Plant Expansion In Jefferson County Is Good News For CNY Dairy Farmers
July 22, 2010 | 1 min to read
Adams, NY – Farmers throughout Central New York are sending their milk to a newly expanded Great Lakes Cheese Co. plant in Adams, Jefferson County.
A grand opening ceremony was conducted Saturday for the plant, which has doubled its capacity with the expansion. More than 13 new jobs also have been created.
Jay Matteson, executive director of the Jefferson County Agricultural Economic Development Corp., said the new manufacturing plant cost more than $80 million to construct and represents the largest new dairy manufacturing plant construction in New York state in decades.
The plant will take in more than 800,000,000 pounds of milk (that’s nearly 69 million gallons) per year — the amount produced by 40,000 cows. The plant takes in milk from farmers in parts of Oswego, Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer and St. Lawrence and nearly all of Jefferson and Lewis counties.
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