MUSCODA — After 100 years in business, Meister Cheese will have its own brand of cheese when the calendar turns to 2016.
The company, in a partnership with Emmi Roth Cheese Co. in Monroe, will unveil its Kindred Creamery brand of cheese in 2016. What is unique about the cheese is that the milk used to make it has to be produced by farmers who meet a strict set of animal-welfare restrictions but will be paid about $1 per hundredweight more for their efforts.
Meister Cheese of Muscoda co-sponsored a Dairy Financial Seminar with Southwest Technical College Dec. 9 to inform dairy farmers about their programs and the opportunity to earn a premium for the milk they produce. The higher pay price comes with a series of stipulations, however. Farmers who participate in Meister’s Cows First program must meet an animal-welfare protocol, steer clear of bovine somatotropin, give their animals unfettered access to the outdoors, not be fed animal byproducts, and cannot have their tails docked.
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