The United States is ramping up cheddar cheese manufacturing – at a time when cheese-making equipment made of stainless steel from Europe has tariffs compounding on tariffs. And as cheesemakers scramble to best compete in this difficult foreign market, production of dairy protein and cottage cheese is also being increased.

In this edition of “The Milkweed,” Pete Hardin joins Bert Zipperer to outline the current dairy trends and recap the latest annual convention of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association.

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