Dairy Products Competition 148 Stocking Hall, Cornell University
Competition Winners ! !Class 1 – Current Cheddar ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Great Lakes Cheese Inc Rich Eveleigh 98 !Silver Great Lakes Cheese Inc Joe Burnham 97.5 !Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96
!Class 2 – Aged Cheddar ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #2 96.5 !Silver McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96 !Award of Excellence: Great Lakes Cheese Inc Kyle Parker 95 !Class 3 – “Super” Aged Cheddar ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #3 97 !Silver McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96 !Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #2 95 !Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #4 95.5 !Class 4 – Cottage Cheese – Full Fat ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold HP Hood Arkport Kristin Crandall 98.5 !Silver HP Hood Arkport Doug Wright 97.5 !Award(s) of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative 96 !Class 5 – Lowfat Cottage Cheese Company Entry Name Score
!Gold Upstate Niagara Cooperative 98.5 !Silver HP Hood Arkport Rachel Ogorzalek 97.5 Award of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative 96.5
!Class 6 – Nonfat Cottage Cheese ! Company Entry Name Score Gold HP Hood Lafargeville 99
Silver HP Hood Arkport Amanda Wallace 97.5
!Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Harley May 96.5 !Class 7 – Cream Cheese/Neufchatel ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold No Entries !Silver ! !Class 8 – Low Moisture Mozzarella ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Empire Cheese Co. Team One 95.5
!Silver Sorrento Lactalis Inc 94.5 ! !Class 9 – Ricotta Cheese Company Entry Name Score ! !Gold Sorrento Lactalis Inc Whey Based Ricotta 99.5 !Silver Kraft/Pollio Carl Space 97.5 Awards of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Whole Milk Ricotta 96.5 !Awards of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Part Skim Ricotta 95 ! !Class 10 – Provolone ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold Empire Cheese Co. Team One 97.5 !Silver Empire Cheese Co. Team Three 95 ! !Class 11 -- Cold Pack/Process Cheese ! Company !Gold Yanceys Fancy Inc Pasteurized Grilled Bacon Cheeseburger 99.0 Silver Herkimer Cheese Co. Michael Basloe 98
!Award Of Excellence: Herkimer Cheese Co. Mary Lowery 97 !Class 12 – Flavored Natural Cheese ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold Meiers Artisan Cheese Mild Pepper 98 !Silver Palatine Valley Dairy Carol Spencer 97 !Award of Excellence: Jigalin Cheese Gary Raiti 95 !Award of Excellence: Kraft/Pollio Dave Atkinson 96.5 !Class 13 – Open Class Cheese ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Yanceys Fancy, Inc Gouda Cheese 97.5 ! !Silver McCadam Cheese Co Muenster 97 Award of Excellence: Old Chatham Sheepherding Co Camembert 96.5 Award of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Part Skim Mozz 96 Award of Excellence: Empire Cheese Co. String Cheese 96.5 Award of Excellence: Yanceys Fancy, Inc Bergenost 95.5 Award of Excellence:! Kraft/ Pollio Mozzarella 96.5 ! !
!Class 14 – Cheese from Milk Other Than Cows Milk ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Castle Farms Feta Cheese 98 ! !Silver Blue Moon Bend LLC Frost Moon 97.5
!Class 15 – Farmstead and Artisan Cow’s Milk Cheese ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Crosswinds Farm & Creamery Alpine Style 98
!Silver Blue Moon Bend LLC Old Moon 97.5 Award of Excellence: Meiers Artisan Cheese Tomme Style 97 ! ! !Class 16 – Sour Cream ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Friendship Dairies Inc Steve Power 99.5
Silver Friendship Dairies Inc Kevin Scott 98.5 Award of Excellence: HP Hood Lafargeville 95 Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Allan Rudolph 98 Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Tim Pierce 97.5
! !Class 17 – Buttermilk ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold Friendship Dairies Inc Allan Rudolph 99.5 !Silver Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 99 Award of Excellence: Stewarts Processing Corp 97.5 Award of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 97.5 Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Steve Power 97.5 Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Kevin Scott 96.5 Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Amanda Wallace 97.5 Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Charlie Robords 97 !Class 18 – Dairy Dips ! Company Entry Name Score !Gold HP Hood Arkport Mike Crouch 98.5 !Silver Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc Bison Dip 96.5 !Award(s) of Excellence: Herkimer Cheese Co Feta Dip 96.5 ! !Class 19– Lowfat Yogurt ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 96.5
Silver HP Hood Lafargeville LF Plain Yogurt 96 ! !Class 20– Lowfat or Nonfat Strained or Greek-Style Yogurt ! Company Entry Name Score Gold Combined with Class 19
!Silver ! !Class 21 – Fluid Milk ! Company Score Gold Upstate Buffalo 99.4
!Silver Battenkill Creamery 99.2
Rounding out the top five, all with scores > 90.0 were: Stewart's Upstate Rochester !Byrne Dairy Class 22– Fluid Milk and Related Products ! Company Entry Name Score Gold !Silver 2014 Dairy Products Competition ! ! GRAND CHAMPION ! Yancey’s Fancy Inc. (Gouda) ! ! ! ! ! Judges – 2014 Dairy Products Competition ! ! Official Judges ! Chief Judge, Charles Lindberg, NYS Dept. A + M David K. Bandler, Cornell University (Prof. Emeritus) John R. Bartell, SUNY Alfred (Retired) Eric J. Dutton, NYS Dept. A+M (Retired) Steve Murphy, Cornell University Victoria Pedersen, NYS Dept. A+M Rob Ralyea, Cornell University Heather Spraker, NYS Dept. A+M Amanda Zick, NYS Dept. A+M David Buteyn, Vivolac Betsy Maines, Wegmans ! ! Judges Assisted by: ! Robert Harrington (Retired), NYS Dept. A + M !