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TEAM GUGGISBERG RANDY KRAHENBUHL GIANNI TOFFOLON Guggisberg Cheese Fair Oaks Dairy Products Belgioioso Cheese Millersburg, Ohio Fair Oaks, Indiana Denmark, Wisconsin 2019 2005 1991 MIKE MATUCHESKI MICHAEL GINGRICH LARRY MARTEN Sartori Company Uplands Cheese Company Cloverleaf Cheese Company Antigo, Wisconsin Dodgeville, Wisconsin Stanley, Wisconsin 2017 2003 1989 TEAM GUGGISBERG CHRISTINE FARRELL TODD JAKOBI Guggisberg Cheese Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. Sorrento Lactalis Old Chatham, New York Arpin, Wisconsin Millersburg, Ohio 2015 2001 1987 HOLLAND’S FAMILY CHEESE TEAM MILFRED SEVERSON FRITZ KOPP Klondike Cheese Company Deppeler Cheese Factory Holland’s Family Cheese Monroe, Wisconsin Monroe, Wisconsin Thorp, Wisconsin 2013 1999 1985 KATIE HEDRICH RICK RUFER JAMES MEIVES Kolb Lena Bresse Bleu Valley View Cheese Factory LaClare Farms Specialties Watertown, Wisconsin South Wayne, Wisconsin Chilton, Wisconsin 2011 1997 1983 JOHN GRIFFITHS CHARLES MALKASSIAN LOUIS LUYKX Vella Cheese Company of California Land O’ Lakes Sartori Foods Sonoma, California Kiel, Wisconsin Antigo, Wisconsin 2009 1995 1981 KEN ROOT MIKE BRENNENSTUHL Land O’ Lakes McCadam Cheese Company Denmark, Wisconsin Chateaugay, New York 2007 1993

2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST WINNING RESULTS

GUGGISBERG EYES SECOND SUCCESS A petite Baby Swiss wheel made by Guggisberg Cheese in 2019 UNITED STATES Millersburg, Ohio earned the title 2019 U.S. Champion Cheese in March, a mere four years after Guggisberg Premium Swiss GRAND CHAMPION topped the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. Richard Guggisberg Marieke Gouda of Thorp, Wisconsin, also continued their winning ways, earning both & Team Guggisberg the First and Second Runner-Up positions this year, after besting the competition in Doughty Valley 2013.Yet, the frequency of their success had no tempering effect on cheesemakers Richard Guggisberg and Marieke Penterman, with both appearing awed and thrilled at Guggisberg Cheese the Contest’s crowning event, Cheese Champion. Millersburg, Ohio Perhaps that’s because they know exactly what a Championship Cheese Contest win can mean for a business. Guggisberg Cheese has enjoyed new national attention and Baby Swis Wheels strong sales since its 2015 win, enabling a major expansion of its operations. In the weeks since the 2019 competition, sales have jumped higher still. Champion Round Score:

The spotlight has been good to Marieke Gouda, too. The company was featured on CBS 98.543 Sunday Morning as part of a Contest preview piece, and — in just the 48 hours after it aired — Marieke reported online sales greater than the total for all of 2018.We’re pleased to hear happy anecdotes like these from many Contest winners each year. 2019 FIRST RUNNER UP

In 2019, dairy processors and manufacturers submitted a record 2,555 entries for Marieke Gouda Team Contest evaluation, and out of 116 classes, 72 different manufacturers and processors came away with gold. Winners include two-person operations and multi-national Marieke Gouda corporations. They hail from every part of the country, from New York to New Mexico. Some first-time competitors even earned gold. Thorp, WI

That diversity of success speaks to the integrity of our judging panel, 60 of the Marieke Gouda Premium nation’s most respected cheese buyers, graders, and researchers. This group was led in 2019 by Chief Judge Jim Mueller, Chief Judge Emeriti Bill Schlinsog and Bob Champion Round Score: Aschebrock, and Assistant Chief Judges Tim Czmowski of Agropur, Inc., Stan Dietsche 98.419 of Oshkosh Cheese Sales & Storage, Josef Hubatschek of ALPMA, Mariana Marques de Almeida of Ms. J & Co., and Sandy Toney of Masters Gallery Foods. We thank them for sharing their expertise with us. 2019 SECOND RUNNER UP We also owe a debt of gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers who gave us their time and talent as part of the B-Team, led by Contest Chairperson Brian Eggebrecht Marieke Gouda Team of Welcome Dairy.We could not have stronger partners than our friends at WOW Marieke Gouda Logistics and Wisconsin Aging & Grading Cheese, who once again provided hundreds of hours of manpower and far more cubic feet of cold storage. Thorp, WI Klondike Cheese Company now houses the gold medal cheeses that will be auctioned Marieke Gouda Overjarige off at the 2019 Cheese Industry Conference, April 17–18 in Madison, Wisconsin, with proceeds to benefit industry educational programs. We appreciate this support. Champion Round Score:

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association is honored to host the U.S. Championship 98.39 Cheese Contest. Planning is already underway for our next competition, with a world of competitors coming to Wisconsin. Find out if you, too, can turn Contest gold into business success. Learn more at WorldChampionCheese.org. Complete Contest results are available at: JOHN UMHOEFER WCMA Executive Director WWW.USCHAMPIONCHEESE.ORG.

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 1 CONTEST RESULTS

Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Team Wapsie, Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc., CLASS 1: CHEDDAR, MILD Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar...... 97.80 Independence, IA, Cheddar Gomez Santiago, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, (0 TO 3 MONTHS) Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, BEST OF CLASS Charles Henn, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar Cheddar Cheese David Lindgren, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton,

WI, Mild Cheddar...... 98.55 Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Team 1, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Mild Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Cheddar SECOND AWARD Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Dutt Zack, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, White Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar ID, Cheddar Mild Cheddar...... 98.25 Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery DFA, Dairy Farmers of America, Chicago, IL, THIRD AWARD Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Mild Cheddar Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Le Sueur, Agropur, Le Sueur, MN, Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar...... 98.20 NY, Cheddar Mild White Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery AMPI‑Blair Team 2, AMPI‑Blair, Blair, WI, NY, Cheddar Mild Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Mild Cheddar...... 98.15 Bongards Perham A, Bongards, Perham, MN, Craythorn Whitney, Glanbia Nutritioanals, Richard Lechner, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Cheddar Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild Granton, WI, Mild Cheddar...... 98.15 Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar MD, Cheddar Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar...... 98.10 Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Rochester Team 1, AMPI, Rochester, MN, Mild Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar...... 98.10 David Meyer, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Mild Cheddar NY, Cheddar Mild Colored Cheddar...... 98.05 Andy Follen, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, WI, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Higgins Shawnie, Glanbia Nutritionals, Mild Cheddar Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild...... 98.00 AMPI‑Blair Team 1, AMPI‑Blair, Blair, WI, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Mild Cheddar Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar...... 97.80

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2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery DFA, Dairy Farmers of America, Chicago, IL, Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Medium Medium Cheddar Cheese Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Cheddar...... 97.35 Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery kiel, WI, Medium Cheddar Matt Burrington, Associated Milk Producers, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Medium Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Inc, Sanborn, IA, Cheddar Cheddar...... 97.25 Chedda Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese Muscoda, WI, Medium Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Medium Bongards Perham B, Bongards, Perham, MN, Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, Cheddar Cheddar WI, Medium Cheddar Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., MD, Cheddar Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Milwaukee, WI, 6 Month Cheddar Bongards Perham A, Bongards, Perham, MN, Pineland Farms Dairy, Pineland Farms Dairy, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook 40# Cheddar Bangor, ME, Cheddar Cheddar Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Maksoc Mirjana, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Cheddar Cheese Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Falls, ID, Cheddar Medium Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Widmer’s Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Mild Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar NY, Cheddar Medium Cheddar Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Widmer’s Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Adam Petrie, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Mild NY, Cheddar Medium Adams, NY, Cheddar Cheddar Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cabot, VT, Medium Cheddar Chateaugay, NY, Medium Cheddar Cheddar Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Co., Inc., Carr Valley Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheese Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Masters Cheddar Cheese NY, Cheddar Mild Reserve Cheddar Joe Burnham, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, MMPA Team/Heritage Ridge, Middlebury Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Adams, NY, Cheddar Cheese Plant, Middlebury, IN, Cheddar Muscoda, WI, Medium Cheddar Edward Nelson, Foremost Farms USA, Team 2, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Mild Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Marshfield, WI, Medium Cheddar Cheddar Medium Cheddar Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery America, Beaver, UT, Medium Yellow Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Medium Cheddar Tim Elmer, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, CLASS 2: CHEDDAR, MEDIUM Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Adams, NY, Cheddar (3 TO 6 MONTHS) Cheddar Cheese Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, BEST OF CLASS Muscoda, WI, Medium Cheddar CLASS 3: CHEDDAR, SHARP Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Huremovic Senada, Glanbia Nutritionals, (6 MONTHS TO 1 YEAR) Cabot, VT, Medium Cheddar...... 99.65 Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Medium SECOND AWARD Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, BEST OF CLASS AMPI‑Blair Team 1, AMPI‑Blair, Blair, WI, Chateaugay, NY, Medium Cheddar Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 99.40 Medium Cheddar...... 98.75 Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Medium Cheddar THIRD AWARD SECOND AWARD Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, Bongards Perham B, Bongards, Perham, MN, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Sharp Cheddar...... 99.15 WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 98.60 Cheddar Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, THIRD AWARD Chateaugay, NY, Medium Cheddar Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, Cheddar...... 99.05 Clovis, NY, Cheddar Medium...... 98.10 WI, Sartori Reserve Medium Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Doug Snortheim, Foremost Farms USA, Clovis, NY, Cheddar Medium...... 97.65 Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, Marshfield, WI, Medium Cheddar AMPI‑Blair Team 2, AMPI‑Blair, Blair, WI, WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 99.00 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Medium Cheddar...... 97.45 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Muscoda, WI, Medium Cheddar Nate Huser, Foremost Farms USA, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Sharp Noble Brothers, Noble View Cheese Cheddar...... 98.90 Marshfield, WI, Medium Cheddar...... 97.40 Company Inc, Adell, WI, Organic White Kovacic Ajnizar, Glanbia Nutritionals, Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Cheddar WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 98.85 Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Medium...... 97.35 Martinez David, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Medium

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 3

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Cheddar...... 98.80 Team Cashton, Pasture Pride Cheese, BEST OF CLASS Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Cashton, WI, Sharp Cheddar Cheese Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Clovis, NY, Cheddar Sharp...... 98.75 Eric Chamberlain, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Extra Sharp

Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Adams, NY, Cheddar Cheddar...... 99.30 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Sharp Sunnyside Cheese Team, Darigold Inc., SECOND AWARD Cheddar...... 98.75 Sunnyside, WA, Sharp Cheddar Cheese Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, FJC Team, Gibbsville Cheese Company, Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Cheddar...... 98.75 Muscoda, WI, Sharp Cheddar Sheboygan Falls, WI, Cheddar Cheese THIRD AWARD Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Team 1, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Aged WI, Sharp Cheddar Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Cheese Cheddar...... 98.70 AMPI‑Blair Team 1, AMPI‑Blair, Blair, WI, DFA, Dairy Farmers of America, Chicago, IL, Sharp Cheddar Sharp Cheddar Cheese Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese LLC, Sheboygan Hancock, MD, Cheddar Cheese...... 98.65 Muscoda, WI, Sharp Cheddar Falls, WI, Whole Milk, White Cheddar Block Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Landon Komis, Foremost Farms USA, Clovis, NY, Cheddar Aged...... 98.65 Kiel, WI, Sharp Cheddar Marshfield, WI, Sharp Cheddar Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Lancaster, WI FFUSA, Foremost Farms USA, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Extra NY, Cheddar Sharp Lancaster, WI, Cheddar Sharp Cheddar...... 98.60 Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Cabot, VT, Sharp Cheddar America, Beaver, UT, Sharp Yellow Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Cheddar...... 98.55 Chateaugay, NY, Sharp Cheddar Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 98.55 Muscoda, WI, Sharp Cheddar NY, Cheddar Sharp Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Parlov Benko, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Sharp Hancock, MD, Cheddar Cheese...... 98.40 Falls, ID, Cheddar Sharp Cheddar Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Nate Huser, Foremost Farms USA, Pineland Farms Dairy, Pineland Farms Dairy, Manufactured by Land O’Lakes Kiel, Marshfield, WI, Sharp Cheddar Bangor, ME, Cheddar Masters Gallery Foods, Plymouth, WI, Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Land O’Lakes Aged Cheddar...... 98.35 MD, Cheddar Cheese Muscoda, WI, Sharp Cheddar Dan Smith, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Adams, NY, Cheddar Cabot, VT, Sharp Cheddar Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Sharp Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheddar Cheddar NY, Cheddar Sharp Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc, Lancaster, WI FFUSA, Foremost Farms USA, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Sharp Cheddar Kiel, WI, Aged 1‑2 Years Lancaster, WI, Cheddar Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese of Mark Stahl, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Wisconsin, Darlington, WI, White Cheddar Adams, NY, Cheddar MD, Cheddar Cheese Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Aged Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Sharp Cheddar Mason Frost, Foremost Farms USA, Charles Henn, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Marshfield, WI, Cheddar, 1‑2 Years Cheddar Cheese Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Medina Josue, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Cheese, Plain, WI, Sharp Cheddar Falls, ID, Cheddar Sharp Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Extra Sharp Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Sharp Cheddar Cheddar Miller Trenton, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Falls, ID, Cheddar Sharp Cheese Company, WILLOWS, CA, Organic Charles Vandyke, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Costal Sharp Cheddar Adams, NY, Cheddar 1st Shift Production, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, NY, Cheddar

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 5 Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Heber Valley Artisan Cheese, Heber Valley Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Extra Sharp Artisan Cheese, Midway, UT, Aged Sharp Cheddar CLASS 5: CHEDDAR, AGED Cheddar Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, TWO YEARS OR LONGER GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, MD, Cheddar Cheese Brattleboro, VT, Grand Reserve Cheddar BEST OF CLASS Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Chateaugay, NY, Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheddar Cheese Cheddar...... 98.60 Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar SECOND AWARD Cheddar Cheese Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Hidanovic Haris, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Kiel, WI, Aged ‑ Over 2 Years...... 97.95 Cheddar Cheese Falls, ID, Cheddar Aged 2+ years Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, THIRD AWARD Gomez Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin WI, Aged 1‑2 Years Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Falls, ID, Cheddar Aged 2+ years Manufactured by Land O’Lakes Kiel, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Chateaugay, NY, Extra Sharp Cheddar Brattleboro, VT, 2 year Cheddar Land O’Lakes Aged Cheddar...... 97.70 Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheddar Cheese Cheese, Plain, WI, Aged White Cheddar Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Chateaugay, NY, Two Years+ Cheddar...... 97.40 NY, Cheddar Aged NY, Southwest Reserve Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Kiel, WI, Aged ‑ Over 2 Years...... 97.25 Muscoda, WI, Aged Cheddar Cheddar Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheddar Cheese...... 96.65 Cheddar Cheese NY, Southwest Reserve Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Doug Snortheim, Foremost Farms USA, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook WI, Cheddar Cheese...... 96.60 Marshfield, WI, Cheddar, 1‑2 Years Cheddar Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Prcic Izudin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Two Falls, ID, Cheddar Aged 1 to 2 years Brattleboro, VT, Reserve Cheddar Year+ Cheddar...... 96.40 Schaeffer Max, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Falls, ID, Cheddar Aged 1 to 2 years Clovis, NY, Southwest Reserve...... 96.30 Team Cabbot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, CLASS 6: TRADITIONAL WAXED Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, 2 Year+ CHEDDAR, MILD TO MEDIUM

Doug Snortheim, Foremost Farms USA, Cheddar...... 96.30 Marshfield, WI, Cheddar, 1‑2 Years BEST OF CLASS Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Milwaukee, WI, 4.5 Year Aged Cheddar...... 96.30 Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Chateaugay, NY, Extra Sharp Cheddar Patty Beattie, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, English Hollow Cheddar...... 99.35 Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Adams, NY, Cheddar Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Cheddar SECOND AWARD John Christopherson, Widmer’s Cheese Rivers Scott, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Alic Suljo, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, 2 Year Cheddar Falls, ID, Bandaged Cheddar Medium...... 99.10 ID, Cheddar Aged 1 to 2 years Hernandez Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin THIRD AWARD Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Falls, ID, Cheddar Aged 2+ years Milwaukee, WI, Black Creek® Cheddar Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Rob Blount, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Appleton, WI, Weis Cheddar Cheese...... 98.95 Dustin Wallendal, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Adams, NY, Cheddar Inc., Theresa, WI, 1 Year Cheddar Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Cabot, VT, 2 Year+ Cheddar Kulasevic Jadranka, Glanbia Brattleboro, VT, 1 year Cheddar Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Bandaged Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Cheddar Medium...... 98.80 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Cheddar Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Aged Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Company, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheddar Shullsburg, WI, Roelli Haus Select Mild...... 98.75 NY, Southwest Reserve Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Nathan Pistner, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, NY, Cheddar Aged Appleton, WI, Weis Cheddar Cheese...... 98.65 Adams, NY, Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, NY, Cheddar Aged Oconto Falls, WI, Medium Cheddar...... 98.60 Cabot, VT, 2 Year+ Cheddar Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Dairy, Inc., Algoma, WI, Red Waxed Cabot, VT, 2 Years+ Cheddar Cheddar Daisy...... 98.50

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Fancy, Inc, Corfu, NY, White Cheddar Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The Stag...... 98.30 Falls, ID, Bandaged Cheddar Sharp Cheese Wheel...... 98.30 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Hobson Lief, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The Falls, ID, Bandaged Cheddar Medium...... 98.20 Imperial Buck...... 98.30 CLASS 8: NATURAL RINDED CHEDDAR Team Nasonville North, Nasonville Dairy, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Inc., Marshfield, WI, Daisy Cheddar Wheel Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, BEST OF CLASS

WI, English Hollow Cheddar...... 98.25 Sara Richards, Door Artisan Cheese Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, WI, Top Hat Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese, English Truckle Cheddar...... 99.55 CLASS 7: TRADITIONAL WAXED Oconto Falls, WI, Aged Cheddar...... 98.15 CHEDDAR, SHARP TO AGED Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple SECOND AWARD Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village BEST OF CLASS WI, English Hollow Cheddar...... 98.05 Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Queen of Quality Clothbound Cheddar...... 98.90 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The King...... 99.15 Appleton, WI, Weis Cheddar Cheese...... 97.85 THIRD AWARD SECOND AWARD Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Cabot Creamery, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro, VT, Cave Aged Cheddar...... 98.75 Kerry Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Appleton, WI, Weis Cheddar Cheese 2 Yr. old Cheddar...... 98.85 Sant Laura, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Bandaged Cheddar Sharp THIRD AWARD Alise Sjostrom, Redhead Creamery, Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese, Oconto Courtney and Shawn Covell, High Country Brooten, MN, Lucky Linda Clothbound Cheddar...... 98.60 Falls, WI, Aged Cheddar...... 98.60 Creamery and Market, Grantsville, MD, Sharp Cheddar Batch Cabot Creamery, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Simic Alex, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Greensboro, VT, Cabot Clothbound Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning ID, Bandaged Cheddar Sharp Cheddar...... 98.50 Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The Fawn...... 98.50 Mosco, Del Priore, Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, NY, White Cheddar Wheel

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CLEANING & SANITATION • ROBOTICS • ENGINEERING • EQUIPMENT • PACKAGING • SAFETY SUPPLIES • FOOD INGREDIENTS • SHRINK AND STRETCH FILM • PAPER PRODUCTS • LAB SUPPLIES GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Joe Widmer, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Inc., Amanda Olson, Agropur, Hull, IA, Monterey Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Vermont Theresa, WI, Traditional Colby Jack Clothbound Cheddar...... 97.70 Colby Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese of Colby Deli‑Horn Jack Wisconsin, Darlington, WI, Little Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Darling...... 96.95 Muscoda, WI, Colby Horn Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese, Sheboygan Henning Cheese, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, CA, Monterey Jack Falls, WI, Cave Aged Bandaged Cheddar...... 96.60 Colby Daisy Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Stockinghall, Murray’s Cheese & Old Team #3, LaGrander’s Hillside Dairy, In, Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack Chatham Creamery, Long Island STANLEY, WI, Colby Longhorn Team Wapsie, Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc., City, NY, Stockinghall...... 96.55 Colby Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Independence, IA, Monterey Jack Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Colby Deli‑Horn Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, NY, Monterey Jack Cave Aged Cheddar Team 3 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Deli Longhorn Richard Lechner, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, Team #1, LaGrander’s Hillside Dairy, In, WI, Monterey Jack CLASS 9: COLBY STANLEY, WI, Colby Longhorn Michael Miller, Agropur, Hull, IA, Monterey Vega Javier, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Jack BEST OF CLASS ID, Colby Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, America, Beaver, UT, Monterey Jack NY, Colby...... 99.50 Muscoda, WI, Colby Horn Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack SECOND AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Rochester Team 2, AMPI, Rochester, MN, Monterey Jack NY, Colby...... 99.40 CLASS 10: MONTEREY JACK Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS NY, Monterey Jack Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Carlos Tanilo, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Colby Deli Longhorn...... 99.30 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Falls, ID, Monterey Jack...... 98.75 Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Monterey SECOND AWARD Jack Bill Stocker, Shullsburg Creamery II LLC, Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Matt Burrington, Associated Milk Producers, Shullsburg, WI, Colby Longhorn...... 99.10 Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack...... 98.65 Inc, Sanborn, IA, Monterey Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, THIRD AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Clovis, NY, Colby...... 99.05 Fehratovic Sabahudin, Glanbia NY, Monterey Jack Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack...... 98.50 Jerome Fredrick, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, Colby Deli Longhorn...... 98.90 WI, Monterey Jack Team 4 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Team 2, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Andy Follen, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Colby Deli Longhorn...... 98.90 Monterey Jack Monterey Jack...... 98.45 Team #2, LaGrander’s Hillside Dairy, In, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Stanley, WI, Colby Longhorn...... 98.70 Monterey Jack Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Monterey Jack...... 98.45 Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Bongards Perham, Bongards, Perham, MN, Company, Muscoda, WI, Colby Horn...... 98.50 Monterey Jack Monterey Jack...... 98.40 Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Cheese Inc, Plain, WI, Colby...... 98.45 Blackfoot, ID, Monterey Jack Hancock, MD, Monterey Jack...... 98.35 Pearl Valley Cheese Colby Team, Pearl Valley Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Cheese, Fresno, OH, Colby Longhorn Garcia Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Blackfoot, ID, Monterey Jack Falls, ID, Monterey Jack...... 98.30 The Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The Robin Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Jack...... 98.30 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NY, Colby Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack...... 98.30 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Devetak Dragan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Muscoda, WI, Colby Horn Falls, ID, Monterey Jack Zukic Sejad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, ID, Colby Blackfoot, ID, Monterey Jack Black Tyler, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, ID, Colby NY, Monterey Jack Zuko Mirsad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Colby

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 9 Silver Dakota, Glanbia Nutrotionals, Twin Team Guggisberg Millersburg, CLASS 11: MARBLED CURD CHEESE Falls, ID, Colby Jack Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, LaGrander’s Cheese Team #3, LaGrander’s 35lb Swiss Wheel Small...... 97.55 BEST OF CLASS Hillside Dairy, Stanley, WI, Colby Jack Neal Schwartz, Chalet Cheese Co‑op/ Longhorn Deppeler, Monroe, WI, 22 lb. Wheel Swiss Bill Stocker, Shullsburg Creamery II LLC,

Shullsburg, WI, Colby Jack Longhorn...... 99.75 Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Luana Team 2, Prairie Farms, Monona, IA, Muscoda, WI, Colby‑Jack Horn Swiss Block SECOND AWARD Rendon Fabian, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Gary Sloan Jr., Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Falls, ID, Colby Jack Middlefield, OH, Swiss cheese NY, Cheddar Jack...... 99.40 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Connor Bowman, Rothenbuhler THIRD AWARD Muscoda, WI, Colby‑Jack Horn Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Swiss Bill Stocker, Shullsburg Creamery II LLC, LaGrander’s Cheese Team #1, LaGrander’s cheese Shullsburg, WI, Colby Jack Mini Horn...... 99.35 Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Colby Jack Team Guggisberg Millersburg, Guggisberg Longhorn Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 35lb Swiss Wheel Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Small Clovis, NY, Cheddar Jack...... 99.25 Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, Casey Petak, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, CA, Colby Jack Cheese Middlefield, OH, Swiss cheese Tillamook Colby Jack...... 99.20 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Team 3 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, NY, Cheddar Jack Bantam, CT, Crybaby Colby Jack Deli Longhorn...... 99.10 Madrid Cheryl, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Ryan Shaheen, Rothenbuhler

Sam Metzger, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack.... 98.95 Falls, ID, Colby Jack Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Swiss cheese Bill Stocker, Shullsburg Creamery II LLC, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company,

Shullsburg, WI, Colby Jack Mini Horn...... 98.95 Muscoda, WI, Colby‑Jack Horn Penn Dairy, Penn Dairy, Winfield, PA, 40# Swiss Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks,

Colby Jack Deli Longhorn...... 98.85 IN, Calico Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Cheese & Finlandia, Sugarcreek, OH, 200lb Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Aged Emmental block Colby Jack Deli Longhorn...... 98.80 Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Pineland Farms Dairy, Pineland Farms Dairy, CLASS 12: SWISS STYLE CHEESE Fresno, OH, Swiss Cheese Bangor, ME, Block Colby Jack BEST OF CLASS Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN, NY, Cheddar Jack Cheese, Sugarcreek, OH, 200lb Swiss Block...... 99.30 St. Helga’s European Style Swiss Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Colby Jack SECOND AWARD Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Teresa Pratt, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack Cheese, Sugarcreek, OH, 200lb Swiss Block...... 98.80 CLASS 13: BABY SWISS STYLE Team 4 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, THIRD AWARD Colby Jack Deli Longhorn BEST OF CLASS Team Guggisberg Millersburg, Guggisberg Atkins Riley, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team Guggisberg Doughty Valley, Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 75lb Swiss Wheel Falls, ID, Colby Jack Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, Baby Medium...... 98.65 Swiss Wheel...... 99.15 Josh Tangen, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, SECOND AWARD Luana Team 1, Prairie Farms, Monona, Chateaugay, NY, Colby Jack Nathan Drewes, Chalet Cheese Co‑op/ IA, Swiss Block...... 98.55 Deppeler, Monroe, WI, 22 lb. Baby Swiss Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Team Guggisberg Millersburg, Wheel...... 98.60 Cheese, Plain, WI, Marble Colby Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, THIRD AWARD Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove 75lb Swiss Wheel Medium...... 98.50 Cheese, Plain, WI, Marble Colby Penn Dairy, Penn Dairy, Winfield, PA, Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Baby Swiss Block...... 98.50 Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Colby/ Fresno, OH, Swiss Cheese...... 97.85 Monterey Jack blend Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, LaGranders Cheese Team #2, LaGrander’s Guggisberg Cheese, Sugarcreek, OH, Jamie Fahrney, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Monroe, WI, Full Cream Mini Baby Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Colby Jack 200lb Aged Emmental block...... 97.80 Longhorn Swiss Wheel...... 98.45 Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Richard Buss Jr., Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Fresno, OH, Swiss Cheese...... 97.75 Muscoda, WI, Colby‑Jack Horn Monroe, WI, Full Cream Baby Swiss...... 98.20 Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Walter Hartwig, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Rick Lehr, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack Fresno, OH, Swiss Cheese...... 97.70 Monroe, WI, Full Cream Baby Swiss...... 98.00 Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of America, Beaver, UT, Colby Jack Cheese

10 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Josh Johnson, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale,

Monroe, WI, Full Cream Baby Swiss...... 97.65 Campbell, NY, Whole Milk Pizza Cheese...... 98.95 WA, Fior di Latte Mozzarella Connor Bowman, Rothenbuhler Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead,

Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Baby WI, low moisture mozzarella, whole milk...... 98.95 Ferndale, WA, Scamorza 12 oz Swiss...... 97.55 Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA Team Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Cheese, ‑ Chilton, Chilton, WI, LMWM Millersburg, OH, 200# Baby Swiss Block...... 97.50 Mozzarella...... 98.95 CLASS 15: MOZZARELLA, PART SKIM Team Guggisberg Doughty Valley, Everardo Alvarez’s Team, Dairy Farmers of Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, America, Turlock, CA, WM Mozz BEST OF CLASS

...... Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Baby Swiss Wheel 97.35 Ignacio Gallegos’s Team, Dairy Farmers of Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, 1# Team Guggisberg Doughty Valley, America, Turlock, CA, WM Mozz Part Skim Mozzarella Ball...... 98.00 Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, Baby Team 1, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Low Swiss Wheel Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella SECOND AWARD Cuba Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Team Central Coast, Central Coast Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Cuba, NY, Part Skim...... 97.90 Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Holey Cow low moisture mozzarella, whole milk Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese Inc., Fresno, Cuba Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, THIRD AWARD OH, Baby Swiss Loaf NY, Whole Milk Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Chilton, Chilton, WI, LMPS Mozzarella...... 97.85 Casey Petak, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Middlefield, OH, Baby Swiss Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Mozzarella Ryan Shaheen, Rothenbuhler Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Farms Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Baby USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, Low Moisture Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 97.75 Swiss Whole Milk Eduardo Ramos’s Team, Dairy Farmers Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, Cuba Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., of America, Turlock, CA, Part Skim IN, Sweet Swiss Cuba, NY, Whole Milk Mozzarella...... 97.70 Shullsburg Team, Prairie Farms, Monona, IA, Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, Foremost Appleton, Foremost Farms Baby Swiss Wheel SD, Low Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, LMPS 6# Loaf...... 97.70 Jim Demeter, Door Artisan Cheese Keith Babler, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, WI, Cave Point WI, Mozzarella Cascade Craig Schelling, Foremost Farms Creamy Swiss USA Milan, Athens, WI, Part Skim Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Mozzarella...... 97.65 Gary Vaughn, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, NY, Whole Milk Pizza Cheese Middlefield, OH, Baby Swiss Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Farms Farms USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, Low Moisture LMPS...... 97.65 Whole Milk 6 LB CLASS 14: MOZZARELLA Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Norden, SD, Low Moisture Part Skim Chilton, Chilton, WI, LMWM Mozzarella BEST OF CLASS Mozzarella...... 97.60 Craig Schelling, Foremost Farms USA Milan, Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Athens, WI, Mozzarella NY, Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese Balls...... 99.65 Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 97.60 Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., SECOND AWARD Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Low Moisture Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, MD, Mozzarella Mozzarella NY, Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese Balls...... 99.50 Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Cuba Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, MD, Mozzarella THIRD AWARD NY, Whole Milk Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Cuba Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, MD, Mozzarella...... 99.40 Cuba, NY, Part Skim WI, Low Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Part Skim Low Moisture Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, New Wilmington, PA, Whole Milk Mozzarella Mozzarella Hancock, MD, Mozzarella...... 99.30 Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Mozzarella Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella low moisture mozzarella, whole milk...... 99.20 Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Ludwig Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, low Farmstead Creamery, Fithan, IL, Mozzarella Inc., Buffalo, NY, Part Skim Low Moisture moisture mozzarella, whole milk...... 99.20 Ben Miller, Foremost Farms USA, Richland Mozzarella Nampa Mozzarella Team, Lactalis Center, WI, MZWM American Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani Craig Schelling, Foremost Farms USA Milan, Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Athens, WI, Part Skim Mozzarella WMLM Mozzarella...... 99.15 Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Low Moisture Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Joe Earl’s Team, Dairy Farmers of Mozzarella Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella America, Turlock, CA, WM Mozz...... 99.00

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 11 Guadalupe Avelar‑Diaz’s Team, Dairy Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell,

Farmers of America, Turlock, CA, Part Skim Campbell, NY, Bocconcini...... 98.65 NY, Gourmet Mozzarella Cheese Logs Mozzarella Mike Newman, BelGioioso Cheese Castelli Team 1, Castelli America, LLC, Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Ashville, NY, Fresh Mozzarella 1# Log Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Mozzarella 8 oz. Thermoform Ball...... 98.65 Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, Maria Villanueva’s Team, Dairy Farmers of Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers WI, Stella Fresh Mozzarella Ball America, Turlock, CA, Part Skim Mozzarella Farmstead Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Ben Miller, Foremost Farms USA, Richland Fresh Mozzarella...... 98.60 NY, Gourmet Mozzarella Cheese Logs Center, WI, Mozzarella Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Park, IL, Cigliegini...... 98.50 Haven, CT, Mozzarella di Bufala Chilton, Chilton, WI, LMPS Mozzarella Nampa Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Toscana Cheese Team, Toscana Cheese, Team 1, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Low Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella Secaucus, NY, Buffalo Flavored Mozzarella Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella soft pouch ‑ TRIS Vac pack in Water Cuba Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, NY, NY, Part Skim Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Buffalo Mozzarella Fresh Mozzarella Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, NY, Part Skim Mozzarella Loaf Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, NY, Ciliegine Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, CLASS 17: BURRATA NY, Part Skim Mozzarella Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Modesto, CA, Fresh Mozzarella BEST OF CLASS Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Di Stefano Cheease, Di Stefano Cheese, NY, Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese Balls Nampa Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Fresh Pomona, CA, Burrata cheese...... 99.45 New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of America, Mozzarella 8oz ball New Wilmington, PA, Part Skim Mozzarella SECOND AWARD Saribek Yayloyan, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett El Mexicano, Marquez Brother Int., Hanford, Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Creamery, Providence, RI, Burrata...... 99.35 CA, Mozzarella 1# Thermoform Log THIRD AWARD Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Part Skim Mozzarella Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Buffalo, NY, Creamery, Providence, RI, Bocconcini Park, IL, Burrata...... 99.30 Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Castelli Team 1, Castelli America, LLC, Part Skim Mozzarella Balls NY, Ashville, NY, Ciliegine in Water Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of America, Don Lensmire, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Part Skim Mozzarella Park, IL, Burratini...... 99.25 New Wilmington, PA, Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Mozzarella, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Ovolini water pack Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Part Skim Mozzarella Creamery, Providence, RI, Fresh Buffalo, NY, Team Lioni, Lioni Latticini, Inc., Union, NY, Burrata...... 99.20 Bufala Fresca Dean Egnarski, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Nampa Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Burrata...... 99.20 CLASS 16: FRESH MOZZARELLA Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella 16oz log Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., BEST OF CLASS East Haven, CT, Burrata...... 99.00 Di Stefano Cheese, Di Stefano Cheese, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Pomona, CA, Fresh Mozzarella Ovoline Lot Team Lioni, Lioni Latticini, Inc., Union, Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, NY, Burrata Con Panna...... 98.95 Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.30 Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, WI, Stella Fresh Mozzarella Log Castelli Team 1, Castelli America, LLC, SECOND AWARD Ashville, NY, Burrata...... 98.60 Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Creamery, Providence, RI, Ovolini Castelli Team 2, Castelli America, LLC, Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Mozzarella in Water Ashville, NY, Burrata...... 98.50 Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.25 Castelli Team 1, Castelli America, LLC, Castelli Team 3, Castelli America, LLC, THIRD AWARD Ashville, NY, Bocconcini in Water Ashville, NY, Burrata...... 98.50 Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Castelli Team 1, Castelli America, LLC, Castelli Team 4, Castelli America, LLC, Park, IL, Nodini...... 99.20 Ashville, NY, Ovoline in Water Ashville, NY, Burrata Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers Losurdo Foods Curd crew, Losurdo WI, Stella® Organic Fresh Mozzarella Ball Union, Sheboygan, WI, Fresh Burrata with foods Inc, Heuvelton, NY, Ovellini in Cows Milk Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian water...... 98.70 Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Fresh Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., Mozzarella East Haven, CT, OVOLINE...... 98.65 Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, Fernando Rodriguez, Toscana Cheese, WI, Stella Organic Fresh Mozzarella Log Secaucus, NY, Fresh Mozzarella Ovoline...... 98.65

12 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Newman, Saputo Cheese USA, Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, CLASS 18: PROVOLONE, MILD Milwaukee, WI, Stella Provolone smoked provolone...... 98.90 Alex Jeske, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, BEST OF CLASS Bay, WI, BelGioioso Mild Provolone 12# SD, Smoked Provolone Salame Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Global Foods International, Global Foods

provolone cheese...... 99.50 Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale, International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked WA, Provlone Natural Provolone loaf SECOND AWARD Keith Babler, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, Clayton B, Foremost Farms USA, Clayton, Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, WI, Provolone Cascade WI, Smoke provolone cheese...... 99.25 Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers THIRD AWARD Union, Sheboygan, WI, Smoked Provolone New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of CLASS 19: PROVOLONE, AGED America, New Wilmington, PA, Provolone

1005...... 99.10 BEST OF CLASS CLASS 21: PARMESAN Kevin Benzel, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Clayton A, Foremost Farms USA, Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Aged Provolone BEST OF CLASS Mandarini...... 98.65 Clayton, WI, No Smoke...... 99.05 Tim Dudek, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, SECOND AWARD Bay, WI, BelGioioso Parmesan...... 99.20 Hancock, MD, Provolone...... 98.95 Cuba Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., SECOND AWARD Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, Cuba, NY, Aged...... 97.85 Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country WI, provolone cheese...... 98.90 THIRD AWARD Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Copper Kettle Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, Cuba Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cheese...... 99.15 WI, provolone cheese...... 98.90 Cuba, NY, Aged...... 97.70 THIRD AWARD Jayson Norman’s Team, Dairy Farmers Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country of America, Turlock, CA, Prov 2019...... 98.85 Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Parmesan Cuba Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Wheel...... 99.05 Provolone, Lactalis American Group, Cuba, NY, Aged...... 97.25 Inc., Buffalo, NY, Mild Provolone...... 98.85

Provolone, Lactalis American Group, Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Mild Provolone...... Inc., Buffalo, NY, 98.75 CLASS 20: SMOKED PROVOLONE Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Parmesan...... 98.90 Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Mike Exferd, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, BEST OF CLASS Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso American

CA, Mild Provolone Cheese Cuba Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc, Cuba, Grana...... 98.75 NY, Smoked...... 99.50 Provolone, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Buffalo, NY, Mild Provolone SECOND AWARD Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Organic Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Cuba Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Copper Kettle Cheese...... 98.70 Chilton, Chilton, WI, Provolone Cuba, NY, Smoked...... 99.40 Eau Galle Cheese Team, Eau Galle Cheese Factory, Inc., Durand, WI, Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, THIRD AWARD Parmesan...... 98.55 SD, Provolone Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑

Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Chilton, Chilton, WI, Smoked Provolone...... 99.30 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Chilton, Chilton, WI, Provolone Plymouth, WI, Sartori Classic Parmesan...... 98.15 New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of America, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Keith Babler, Cascade Cheese Co, New Wilmington, PA, Provolone 1004 Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Cascade, WI, Smoked Provolone Cascade...... 99.25 SarVecchio Parmesan...... 97.95 Nampa Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Cuba Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Provolone Eau Galle Cheese Team, Eau Galle Cuba, NY, Smoked...... 99.20 Cheese Cheese Factory, Inc., Durand, WI, Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead, Parmesan...... 97.90 Cuba Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, Ferndale, WA, Smoked Provolone...... 99.05 NY, Provolone Team‑ AMPI, AMPI‑ Hoven, Hoven, SD, Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Parmesan Cheese Wheel Reedsburg, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., smoked provolone...... 99.05 Milwaukee, WI, Provolone Rick Lehr, Agropur, Hull, IA, Parmesan Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, Pollock Cheese Team, DairiConcepts, WI, smoked provolone...... 99.00 SD, Provolone Pollock, SD, 40 lb block Parmesan Team Chilton, Foremost Farms USA ‑ Cuba Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, Pollock Cheese Team, DairiConcepts, Chilton, Chilton, WI, Smoked Provolone...... 98.95 NY, Provolone Pollock, SD, 41 lb block Parmesan Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Cuba Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Norden, Lake Norden, SD, Smoked Cuba, NY, Provolone Muscoda, WI, Parmesan Provolone...... 98.90

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 13 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis,

Blackfoot, ID, Parm Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Asiago...... 98.55 Belmont, WI, 6oz feta regular...... 98.05 Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Mike DeMuth, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, feta

MD, Batch 7 Clovis, NY, Asiago Anejo...... 98.50 cheese Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Haley Lehman, Glenn Goss, Team Nasonville, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Blackfoot, ID, Parm Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Aged Marshfield, WI, Feta in Brine Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Asiago aged 24 months‑ Batch #6...... 98.10 Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Parmesan Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, WI, 8oz feta Clovis, NY, Asiago Anejo...... 97.95 Karoun, Karaoun Dairies, Turlock, CA, Brinza Mike Brennenstuhl, Door Artisan Feta CLASS 22: FRESH ASIAGO Cheese Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, Geovanny Chavez, Tucumcari Mnt. Cheese WI, Aged Crema Pressato...... 97.80 Factory, Tucumcari, NY, Feta BEST OF CLASS Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Nasonville, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Eau Galle Cheese Team, Eau Galle Cheese ...... Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Aged Asiago 97.70 Marshfield, WI, Feta Crumbles Factory, Inc., Durand, WI, Asiago...... 99.45 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Charles J Krause, Tucumcari Mtn. Cheese SECOND AWARD Clovis, NY, Asiago Anejo...... 97.60 Factory, Tucumcari, NY, Feta Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team ‑ AMPI, AMPI‑ Hoven, Hoven, SD, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, NY, Southwest Asiago...... 99.40 Asiago Wheel Websterville, VT, Feta THIRD AWARD Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Extra Aged 8oz fat free feta NY, Southwest Asiago...... 98.95 Asiago Wheel Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, WI, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, 6oz reduced fat feta IN, Aged Asiago Haley Lehman, Glenn Goss, Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, WI, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Fresh Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, 6oz fat free feta NY, Asiago Anejo Asiago aged 3 months‑Batch #7...... 98.30 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Westby, WI, Farmstead Feta Muscoda, WI, Aged Asiago Ferndale, WA, Asiago Pressa...... 97.05 Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Orland, CA, Fresh Cows Milk Feta Muscoda, WI, Aged Asiago Clovis, NY, Southwest Asiago...... 96.65 Jonathan Stender, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Asiago CLASS 25: FETA, FLAVORED Fresco...... 96.60 CLASS 24: FETA Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Company, Muscoda, WI, Fresh Asiago...... 96.40 Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Mediterranean feta...... 99.25 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Feta...... 99.20 Company, Muscoda, WI, Fresh Asiago...... 96.15 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Team Nasonville Dairy, Nasonville Dairy, Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Company, Muscoda, WI, Fresh Asiago...... 95.70 Inc., Marshfield, WI, Cucumber Lemon Monroe, WI, Odyssey Feta...... 99.15 Feta Crumbles...... 99.20 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Fresh Asiago...... 95.65 THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Monroe, WI, Odyssey Feta...... 99.10 feta cheese with peppercorn...... 99.15 CLASS 23: AGED ASIAGO Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Tim Kempf, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, BEST OF CLASS WI, feta cheese...... 98.95 feta cheese with peppercorn...... 99.10 Eau Galle Cheese Team, Eau Galle Cheese Ben Shibler, Hay Americyan Foods LLC, Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Factory, Inc., Durand, WI, Aged Asiago...... 99.25 Green Bay, WI, Chanakh Cheese...... 98.70 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Peppercorn Feta...... 99.00 SECOND AWARD Ben Billington, Agropur, Weyauwega, Nathan Forseth, Agropur, Weyauwega, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, feta cheese...... 98.40 WI, feta cheese with basil & tomato...... 98.90 WI, Sartori Classic Asiago...... 99.15 Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, feta cheese...... 98.30 THIRD AWARD feta cheese with basil & tomato...... 98.70 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., WI, Sartori Reserve Extra‑Aged Asiago...... 98.60 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Feta...... 98.25 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Tomato & Basil

Saribek Yayloyan, Hay Americyan Foods Feta...... 98.65

LLC, Green Bay, WI, Chanakh Cheese...... 98.15

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Justin Lowery, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Decatur, CROPP/Organic Valley, La Monroe, WI, Odyssey Tomato & Basil Farge, WI, Organic Muenster Cheese CLASS 27: HAVARTI Feta...... 98.55 Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy Inc., Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Brodhead, WI, Brick BEST OF CLASS WI, Mediterranean feta...... 98.45 Team 3, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy

Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Wayne, WI, Muenster Inc., Brodhead, WI, Havarti...... 99.45 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Mediterranean Feta Hans Lehner Jr, Valley View Cheese, South SECOND AWARD Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Wayne, WI, Muenster Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Peppercorn Feta Matt Linares, Valley View Cheese, South Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Havarti...... 99.30 Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Wayne, WI, Brick THIRD AWARD Monroe, WI, Odyssey Mediterranean Feta Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc., South Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, WI, Wayne, WI, Muenster Oaks, IN, Havarti...... 99.20 6oz Feta med herbs Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc., South Wayne, WI, Brick Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., WI, Creamy Havarti...... 99.05 CLASS 26: BRICK & MUENSTER Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Muenster Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South BEST OF CLASS WI, Creamy Havarti...... 99.00 Wayne, WI, Brick Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., ...... Team 3, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South WI, Muenster 99.50 Brodhead, WI, Havarti...... 99.00 Wayne, WI, Brick SECOND AWARD Brett Riese, Klondike Cheese Co., Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, John (Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Havarti...... 98.95 IN, Muenster Arena, WI, Brick...... 99.40 Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Brodhead, WI, Havarti...... 98.90 THIRD AWARD Chateaugay, NY, Muenster cut from 640 John (Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Arena, WI, Muenster...... 99.35 Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Havarti...... 98.90 WI, Brick Steve Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy Inc., Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Havarti...... 98.90 Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Muenster Brodhead, WI, Muenster...... 99.25 Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, WI, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Roth Organic Havarti Cheese Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., Chateaugay, NY, Muenster cut from 640 Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Team 1, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Muenster...... 99.25 Monticello, WI, Havarti Muenster Jamie White, Torkelson Cheese Co., Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Team 4, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Lena, IL, Brick Cheese...... 99.20 Muscoda, WI, Havarti Wayne, WI, Brick Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Brick...... 99.20 Honesdale, PA, Havarti Wayne, WI, Muenster Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Team Comstock, Comstock Creamery, Monticello, WI, Muenster...... 99.10 Bantam, CT, Bella Bantam Comstock, WI, Red Rind Muenster Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Joey Widmer, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Inc., Monticello, WI, Brick...... 99.10 Muscoda, WI, Havarti Theresa, WI, Mild Brick Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Team 2, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Muscoda, WI, Havarti Muenster Muenster...... 99.10 Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Team Comstock, Comstock Creamery, Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Creamy Havarti Comstock, WI, Wisconsin Brick Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Brick...... 99.10 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Trace Peterson, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhaead, Muscoda, WI, Havarti Red Rind Muenster WI, Brick Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Creamy Havarti Farms USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, 6 LB WI, Buholzer Brothers Muenster Muenster Hansi Lehner Jr, Valley View Cheese, South Team 4, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Wayne, WI, Havarti Greg Corpus, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Red Wayne, WI, Muenster Rind Muenster Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Brick Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Brick

16 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Hansi Lehner Jr, Valley View Cheese, South Nampa String Team, Lactalis American CLASS 28: HAVARTI, FLAVORED Wayne, WI, Garlic Pesto Havarti Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani WMLM Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Mozzarella String BEST OF CLASS IN, Veggie Havarti Mark Boelk, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Mexican Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, String Cheese Monticello, WI, Sun Dried Tomato & Basil Havarti Loaf with Dill Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Havarti...... 99.10 Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello, WI, Veggie Havarti Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, SECOND AWARD String Cheese Sticks Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Matt Linares, Valley View Cheese, South Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Brodhead, WI, Havarti with Dill...... 99.00 Wayne, WI, Chipotle Havarti NY, Low Moisture Part Skim String Cheese THIRD AWARD Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Fithan, IL, Mustard Francisco Ochoa, Ochoa’s Queseria, Albany, Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy OR, Liliana’s String Cheese Inc., Brodhead, WI, Havarti Dill...... 98.95 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Flavored Havarti Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, kewaunee, WI, Farmtead String Cheese Ty Saglam, Klondike Cheese Co., Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Dill CLASS 29: STRING CHEESE Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead String Cheese Havarti...... 98.90 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Daniel Clayton, Glanbia Nutritionals, BEST OF CLASS Hanford, CA EM Queso Oaxaca String Twin Falls, ID, Havarti/Dill...... 98.85 Heydi Luis, Cesar’s Cheese LLC, Dan Schwind, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Sheboygan Falls, WI, Whole Milk, Hand Cloud, WI, Whole Milk mozzarella Monticello, WI, Onion Havarti...... 98.80 Stretched...... 99.65 Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., SECOND AWARD Inc., Algoma, WI, String Cheese Brodhead, WI, Havarti Dill...... 98.80 Cesar Luis & Team Gibbsville, Cesar’s Casey Berget, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Cheese LLC, Sheboygan Falls, WI, Whole Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Mexican Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Dill Milk; Hand Stretched...... 99.60 String Cheese Havarti...... 98.75 THIRD AWARD Products Team, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead String Cheese Monticello, WI, Dill Havarti...... 98.70 Inc., Modesto, CA, Oaxaca Tiras...... 99.45 Nampa String Team, Lactalis American Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani LMPS Monroe, WI, Buholzer Brothers Dill Mozzarella String Havarti...... 98.70 Kevin Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Cloud, WI, low moisture Team Baker, CROPP/Organic Valley, La Farge, Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, WI, Organic String Cheese part‑skim mozzarella...... 99.40 Havarti Loaf with Dill Jace Johnsrud, V&V Supremo Foods/ Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, NY, LMPS Culture String Cheese WI, Buholzer Brothers Dill Havarti WI, Mexican String Cheese...... 99.40 Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Damaris Luis, Cesar’s Cheese LLC, NY, LMPS String Cheese WI, Mediterranean Herb Havarti Sheboygan Falls, WI, Whole Milk, Hand Products Team, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Stretched...... 99.40 Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead String Cheese Havarti Loaf with Dill Tim Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Dave Perry, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Inc, St Cloud, WI, low moisture NY, Low Moisture Whole Milk String Cheese ID, Havarti/Garlic part‑skim mozzarella...... 99.30 Nampa String Team, Lactalis American Valerie Arechiga, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Tim Pehl, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani Organic String Falls, ID, Havarti/Onion Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Mexican String Cheese...... 99.25 Scott Lopas, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Havarti Loaf with Dill Brian Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Farmers Rope String Cheese Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Inc, St Cloud, WI, low moisture WI, Mediterranean Herb Havarti part‑skim mozzarella...... 99.20 Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Little Cesar’, Cesar’s Cheese LLC, IN, Dill Havarti Sheboygan Falls, WI, Whole Milk, Hand Stretched...... 99.10 Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, IN, Onion Havarti Nampa String Team, Lactalis American Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Provolone String Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Flavored Havarti Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Valley View Cheese, Valley View Cheese, String Cheese Skinny Sticks South Wayne, WI, Horseradish Chive Havarti

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 17 Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, CLASS 30: FLAVORED STRING CHEESE Kewaunee, WI, Fiesta String Cheese...... 99.25 Westby, WI, 4% Small Curd Cottage Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, Cheese...... 98.70 BEST OF CLASS CA, Hand Braided String, with Black Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, Caraway seed and Cherry pit...... 98.50 Westby, WI, 2% Small Curd Cottage Products Team, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Cheese...... 98.60 Kewaunee, WI, Fiesta String Cheese...... 99.55 Tori Boomgaarden, Kemps, Farmington, SECOND AWARD CLASS 31: COTTAGE CHEESE MN, Cottage Cheese Singles‑ Peach Lot...... 98.55 Shawn Brown, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate St Cloud, WI, Jalapeno Peppers...... 99.50 BEST OF CLASS Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo,

THIRD AWARD Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, NY, 1% Cottage Cheese...... 98.05 Westby, WI, 4% Large Curd Cottage Cheese...... 99.05 Larry Brown, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Cloud, WI, Jalapeno Peppers...... 99.45 SECOND AWARD Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, Tori Boomgaarden, Kemps, Farmington, NY, 4% Cottage Cheese...... 97.85 Tim Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory MN, Cottage Cheese Singles‑ Pinneaple Lot...... 98.85 Team Cultured, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Cottage Cheese...... 97.80 Inc, St Cloud, WI, jalapeno peppers...... 99.35 THIRD AWARD Products Team, Ponderosa Dairy Team Cultured, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY,

Products, Kewaunee, WI, Fiesta String VT, Cottage Cheese...... 98.80 Muuna Lowfat Cottage Cheese...... 97.55 Cheese...... 99.30 Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, Nick Pierquet, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, Muuna Peach Cottage Cheese...... 97.55

St Cloud, WI, Jalapeno Peppers...... 99.30

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18 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, Team Lamagna, Lamagna Cheese, Litehouse Simply Artisan, Litehouse Muuna Classic Cottage Cheese Vernona, PA, Whole Milk Smooth Simply Artisan, Sandpoint, ID, Tori Boomgaarden, Kemps, Farmington, MN, Ricotta...... 98.05 Gorgonzola...... 98.20 Cottage Cheese Singles‑ Pear & Honey Team1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Litehouse Simply Artisan, Litehouse Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, NY, Clean Deck Part Skim Ricotta Simply Artisan, Sandpoint, ID, Muuna Mango Cottage Cheese Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, Gorgonzola...... 98.00 Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, CA, Whole Milk Jersey Basket Ricotta Imperia Foods Montfort WI team 1, Muuna Pineapple Cottage Cheese Castelli Ricotta Team, Castelli America, LLC, Montfort, Montfort, WI, Montforte Gorgonzola Wheel...... 98.00 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Ashville, NY, All Milk Ricotta Niagara Cooperative, Inc, Buffalo, NY, 4% MT Foods, Montena Taranto Foods, Jeff Allen, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Pineapple Cottage Cheese Ridgefield, NY, Classic Bay, WI, BelGioioso CreamyGorg...... 97.65 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Salemville, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 5% Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Ricotta Milwaukee, WI, Gorgonzola...... 97.05 Cottage Cheese Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, NY, Old Fashion Ricotta Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Glacier Point Gorgonzola...... 97.00 Muuna Blueberry Cottage Cheese Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Ricotta Muuna Raspberry Cottage Cheese Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., CLASS 34: BLUE VEINED CHEESES Tori Boomgaarden, Kemps, Farmington, MN, Buffalo, NY, Ricotta ‑ Made With Whole Milk WITH EXTERIOR MOLDING Cottage Cheese Singles‑ Mixed Berry Losurdo Foods Ricotta crew, Losurdo foods Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, Inc, Heuvelton, NY, 3 lb Ricotta BEST OF CLASS Muuna Strawberry Cottage Cheese Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Team Sal Iorio, Muuna, Princeton, NY, Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Ricotta Greensboro, VT, Bayley Hazen Blue...... 98.90 Muuna Black Cherry Cottage Cheese Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, SECOND AWARD Inc., Modesto, CA, Whole Milk Ricotta Calyroad Creamery, Calyroad Creamery, El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Sandy Springs, GA, Bit O’ Blue...... 98.35 CLASS 32: RICOTTA Hanford, CA, Requeson Tray THIRD AWARD MT Foods, Montena TarantoFoods, BEST OF CLASS Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Co, Shullsburg, Ridgefield, NY, Traditional Team Salazar, Caputo Cheese, Melrose WI, RedRock...... 98.30 Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, Park, IL, Ricotta Red...... 99.40 CA, Jersey Whey Basket Ricotta SECOND AWARD Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Team Lamagna, Lamagna Cheese, Verona, Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Dairy, Bantam, CT, Arethusa Blue...... 98.15 PA, Part Skim Ricotta NY, Clean Deck Whole Milk Ricotta...... 99.25 Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Team Lamagna, Lamagna Cheese, Verona, Farmstead Cheese Company, Point THIRD AWARD PA, Whole Milk Curd Style Ricotta Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East Reyes, CA, Point Reyes Bay Blue...... 98.10 Di Stefano Cheese, Di Stefano Cheese, Haven, CT, Hand Dipped Ricotta...... 99.05 Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Ludwig Pomona, CA, Ricotta Lot Farmstead Creamery, Fithan, IL, Blue...... 97.45

Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Campbell, NY, Clean Deck Whole Milk CLASS 33: GORGONZOLA Farmstead, Waitsfield, VT, Mad River Blue...... 97.10 Ricotta...... 99.00 MT Foods, Montena Taranto Foods, BEST OF CLASS Barden Blue, Murray’s Cheese & Consider Bardwell Farm, Long Island Ridgefield, NY, Old Fashioned...... 98.85 Team Seymour, Emmi Roth USA, Seymour, City, NY, Barden Blue...... 96.60 Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett WI, Gorgonzola...... 99.35 Creamery, Providence, RI, Whole Milk SECOND AWARD Ricotta...... 98.75 Team Seymour, Emmi Roth USA, Seymour,

Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett WI, Gorgonzola...... 99.15 Creamery, Providence, RI, Whole Milk THIRD AWARD Ricotta...... 98.40 Joe Moreda, Jr & Team, Valley Ford Cheese Castelli Ricotta Team, Castelli America, & Creamery, Valley Ford, CA, Grazin Girl...... 98.75 LLC, Ashville, NY, Ricotta‑Whey Based...... 98.35 Jason Radke, BelGioioso Cheese Inc, Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Ricotta con Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, Latte Whole Milk...... 98.30 MN, AmaGorg Gorgonzola Cheese...... 98.25

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 19 Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, CLASS 35: BLUE VEINED CHEESES CLASS 36: BRIE & CAMEMBERT Honesdale, PA, Brie Bryon Schroeder, Schroeder Kase, REWEY, BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS WI, Triple Creme Brie Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Lactalis USA‑ Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese,

Farmstead Cheese Company, Point Reyes, WI, 8oz triple cream...... 99.50 Petaluma, CA, Traditional Brie

CA, Point Reyes Original Blue...... 97.70 SECOND AWARD MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Company, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo SECOND AWARD Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, Camembert Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr WI, 8oz Brie...... 99.20 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, THIRD AWARD Penta Creme...... 97.65 Petaluma, CA, Petite Camembert Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, Belmont, Alise Sjostrom, Redhead Creamery, Brooten, THIRD AWARD WI Triple cream...... 99.15 MN, Little Lucy Brie, Ripened 4‑8 weeks Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN, Four Fat Fowl, Four Fat Fowl, Stephentown, Lactalis USA‑ Belmont, Lactalis, St. Pete’s Select Blue Cheese...... 97.10 NY, St. Stephen soft‑ripened triple cream Belmont, WI Camembert...... 99.10 Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Amick’s Choice, Clemson University Dairy, Bantam, CT, Camembert...... 99.00 Blue Cheese, Clemson, SC, Mild Blue CLASS 37: OPEN CLASS: SOFT Old Europe, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Cheese...... 97.05 RIPENED CHEESES Milwaukee, WI, Camembert...... 99.00 Great Hill Blue Cheese, Great Hill Dairy, Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, BEST OF CLASS Inc., Marion, MA, Great Hill Blue...... 96.50 Greensboro, VT, Moses Sleeper...... 98.75 Savencia Cheese USA, Savencia Cheese Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Old Europe, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., USA, New Holland, PA, Dorothy’s Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Blue Cheese...... 96.35 Milwaukee, WI, Triple Creme Brie...... 98.70 Comeback Cow...... 99.75 Mindoro Blue, Prairie Farms ‑ Mindoro, WI, Mindoro, WI, Heat Treated Blue Lactalis USA Belmont, Lactalis, SECOND AWARD Belmont, WI Brie Double cream...... 98.60 Fons Smits, Tulip Tree Creamery, Cheese Wheel...... 96.05 indianapolis, IN, Trillium...... 98.85 Salemville, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Lactalis USA Belmont, lactalis, Belmont, WI, 8oz camembert...... 98.55 Milwaukee, WI, Blue Cheese...... 95.90 THIRD AWARD Montfort WI team, Montfort, Montfort, Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 1 Kg Triple COATESVILLE, PA, Blow Horn...... 98.60 WI, Montforte Bleu Wheel...... 95.80 Creme Brie Salemville, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Milwaukee, WI, Reserve Blue Cheese...... 95.65 Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Triple Greensboro, VT, Harbison...... 98.25 Litehouse Simply Artisan, Litehouse Simply Creme Artisan, Sandpoint, ID, Blue Team Marin French Cheese, Marin Old Europe, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Petite Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Milwaukee, WI, Double Creme Brie Seymour, Inc., Seymour, WI, Blue Cheese Ash...... 98.15 Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Bryon Schroeder, Schroeder Kase, Rewey, Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg New Holland, PA, Alouette Double WI, Blue Cheese Double Creme Creme Brie...... 97.90 Litehouse Simply Artisan, Litehouse Simply Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Alise Sjostrom, Redhead Creamery, Artisan, Sandpoint, ID, Blue Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 7 oz Brie Brooten, MN, North Fork Whiskey Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, West Wedge Washed Munster...... 97.85 Pawlet, VT, 802 Blue Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Savencia Cheese Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Petaluma, CA, Petite Crème USA, New Holland, PA, Dorothy Keep Mineral Point, WI, Blue Paradise Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Dreaming...... 97.85 Salemville, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Marin French Cheese, Marin French Milwaukee, WI, Vintage Blue Cheese Camembert Traditionnel Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Petite Supreme...... 97.75 Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, Briar Rose Creamery cheesemakers, Seymour, Inc., Seymour, WI, Blue Cheese Honesdale, PA, Brie Briar Rose Creamery, Dundee, OR,

Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Butterbloom...... 97.70 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Coatesville, PA, Mayfly St. Mark’s, Murray’s Cheese & Vermont Glacier Blue Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Creamery, Long Island City, NY, St. Mark’s Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 16 oz Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Slicing Brie Websterville, VT, St. Albans Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Petaluma, CA, Triple Crème Brie Bantam, CT, Karlies Gratitude

20 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Greensboro, VT, Little Hosmer Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Gouda CLASS 39: GOUDA, AGED Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Wheel Petaluma, CA, Supreme 1.1 lb Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, BEST OF CLASS 10lb Gouda Wheel Bill Anderson, Specialty Cheese Co., Inc., Marieke Gouda Team, Holland’s Family Reeseville, WI, Wisconsin Tomme Bloomy Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Cheese, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda

Rind Aged Cheese Fresno, OH, Gouda Deli Horn Overjarige...... 98.85 von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Farmstead, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf SECOND AWARD Waitsfield, VT, Mt. Alice Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Gouda Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Aaron Langdon, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 5lb Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN,

Nicasio, CA, Tomino Edam Loaf Jeffs’ Select Cave Aged Gouda...... 98.80 Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple THIRD AWARD Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Adair Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Creamery Team, Cal Poly State University, 320 Traditional Gouda San Luis Obispo, CA, Grand Gouda 198...... 98.75 Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Coatesville, PA, Hummingbird Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Belegen (4‑6 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese month) Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, Company, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Gary Grossen, Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, WI, Traditional Aged Gouda...... 98.60 Ashley Madison, WI, Mild Gouda Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Mecox Bay Dairy, Mecox Bay Dairy, John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Oakdale, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Belegen...... 98.55 Bridgehampton, NY, Atlantic Mist CA, Mild Gouda Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Anaya Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Young...... 98.55 Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, JQ ID, Gouda Mild Rudy Yoder, Farmer Rudolph’s, Lebanon, 331 Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe PA, Sir Farmer cheese...... 98.45 Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Edam Loaf Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, CLASS 38: EDAM & GOUDA Muscoda, WI, Gouda Traditional Aged Gouda...... 98.30 Team Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, BEST OF CLASS John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 3 mon Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Oakdale, CA, Aged Gouda...... 98.20 Ron Henningfeld, Hill Valley Dairy, Lake Dairy, Bantam, CT, Europa, Make date: Gary Grossen, Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, ...... Geneva, WI, Romari Farms Gouda 3092418 9/5/18 99.75 Madison, WI, Aged Gouda...... 98.05 Cvijetic Vlado, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin SECOND AWARD Gary Grossen, Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, Falls, ID, Gouda Mild Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Madison, WI, Aged Gouda Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Mature...... 99.60 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr MD, Batch 25 THIRD AWARD Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Reserve Gouda Scott Lopas, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, 5lb Edam Loaf...... 99.50 McCormack, Romesser, Spikes, Yancey’s WI, Gouda Fancy, Corfu, NY, Gouda Wheel Strbac Nikola, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Team Stuyt, Stuyt Dairy Farmstead Falls, ID, Gouda Mild Farmstead Cheese Company, Point Reyes, Cheese Co. LLC, Escalon, CA, Mild Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, WI, CA, Point Reyes Aged Gouda Gouda Batch 194...... 99.45 Roth Organic Van Gogh Gouda Cheese Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Revittle, Revittle, Harrisburg, PA, Revittle IN, Aged Gouda Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Young...... 99.40 Gouda Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Greg, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, MO, Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Aged WI, 5lb Gouda Loaf...... 99.30 Gouda Gouda Wheel Ryan Onkels, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple 10lb Gouda Wheel...... 99.25 Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Greg Corpus, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Traditional Aged Gouda 5lb Gouda Loaf...... 99.15 Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Aged Gouda Deli Longhorn Oaks, IN, Gouda...... 99.10 Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Rudy Yoder, Farmer Rudolph’s, Lebanon, Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN, PA, Cape Cod Cheese...... 99.10 St. Mary’s Grassfed Cave Aged Gouda Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Wakker Team, Wakker Cheese, Kewaunee, Company, Muscoda, WI, Gouda...... 99.10 WI, Batch 12

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 21 Ryan Onkels, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 10lb Daniel Clayton, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Neimeyer Brice, Glanbia Nutritionals,

Reserve Gouda Wheel Falls, ID, Gouda/Cumin Twin Falls, ID, Smoked Gouda...... 99.20 Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Egan Boyd, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin

Aged Gouda Deli Horn Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Onion Garlic Falls, ID, Smoked Gouda...... 99.10 Wakker Team, Wakker Cheese, Kewaunee, Dave Perry, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Loya Isaac, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, WI, Batch 15 ID, Gouda/Garlic & Chive ID, Smoked Gouda Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, 10lb Reserve Gouda Wheel Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Aged WI, 10 lb Gouda Wheel with Cracked Black Team Stuyt, Stuyt Dairy Farmstead Cheese Chipotle Gouda Peppercorn Co. LLC, Escalon, CA, Aged Gouda Batch 164 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Global Foods International, Global Foods Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Summer Fields International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Vintage Gouda Wheel Wakker Team, Wakker Cheese, Kewaunee, Natural Gouda Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr WI, Batch 59 Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Haley Lehman, Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Muscoda, WI, Smoked Gouda Aged Gouda Rochester, IN, Gouda aged 1.5 months with Trevor Laack & Crew, Dupont Cheese Inc., Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, dried Rosemary Marion, WI, Smoked Gouda 10lb Vintage Gouda Wheel Steve Moore, John Slawinski and Clock Steve Moore, John Slawinski and Clock Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Shadow Creamery, Delta Dream, LLC, Shadow Creamery, Delta Dream, LLC, Monticello, WI, Grass Based Aged Gouda Arena, WI, Delta Dream WisCajun Gouda Arena, WI, Delta Dream WisCajun Smoked Gouda Organic Valley‑Carie Wagner, Carr Valley, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Organic Valley at Carr Valley, La Farge, WI, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Bacon Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Gouda Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Smoked Gouda Deli Horn Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Chipotle Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Gouda Muscoda, WI, Smoked Gouda CLASS 40: GOUDA, FLAVORED Wakker Team, Wakker Cheese, Kewaunee, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr WI, Batch 59 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, BEST OF CLASS Haley Lehman, Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Smoked Gouda John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Oakdale, Rochester, IN, Gouda aged 1.5 months, with Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, CA, Cumin Gouda...... 99.15 dried Morel Mushroom and Leek Muscoda, WI, Smoked Gouda SECOND AWARD Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Muscoda, WI, Smoked Gouda Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Truffle...... 99.10 CLASS 41: SMOKED GOUDA Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Cheesemaker, Inc., Monroe, WI, Smoked THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS Gouda Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Burning Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Melange...... 98.95 Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN, Smoked Traditional Gouda...... 99.85 Smoked St. Mary’s Grassfed Cave Aged Gouda SECOND AWARD Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Smoked Gouda Deli Horn WI, 10 lb Chipotle Gouda Wheel...... 98.85 Oaks, IN, Smoked Gouda...... 99.75 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, THIRD AWARD Blackfoot, ID, 4/2 Smoky Gouda 2 Thorp, WI, Gouda Black Mustard...... 98.65 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked Cumin...... 99.70 Blackfoot, ID, 4/2 Smoky Gouda 3 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Mustard Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Melange...... 98.55 Blackfoot, ID, 4/2 Smoky Gouda Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked...... 99.55 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Foenegreek...... 98.40 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Creamery Team, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Pesto Basil...... 98.15 Smoked Grand Gouda 198...... 99.45 Heric Nijaz, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Greg Corpus, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Falls, ID, Gouda/Green Olives & Pimento...... 98.10 10 lb Gouda Wheel...... 99.35 Zuko Mirsad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Trace Peterson, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Falls, ID, Bacon Gouda...... 98.10 WI, 10 lb Gouda Wheel...... 99.35 Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 10 lb Chipotle Gouda Wheel Scott Lopas, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 10 lb Gouda Wheel with Cracked Black Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Platteville, Peppercorn...... 99.30 WI, Roth Green Goddess Gouda Cheese

22 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Los Altos, Los Altos Food Products, City of Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, CLASS 42: LATIN AMERICAN Industry, CA, Panela Inc., Modesto, CA, Oaxaca Bola Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese Makers‑ Jamie White, Torkelson Cheese Co., Lena, IL, STYLE FRESH CHEESES Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Queso Blanco Quesadilla Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese BEST OF CLASS Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NJ, Queso Makers‑Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Brian Mundt, Mexican Cheese Producers, Fresco Duranguense (Quesadilla Style) Inc. (Sigma USA), Darlington, WI, Queso

Panela Basket...... 99.50 Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Molly Patterson, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Oaxaca SECOND AWARD Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Cheese Ball Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Modesto, CA, Fresco Michoacano Tim Pehl, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Vista Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Caribe Grilling Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese...... 99.45 Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese Makers‑ Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Cheese THIRD AWARD Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Union, Sheboygan, WI, Panela Wheel Wayne, WI, Baby Jack Wheel Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco...... 99.35 Team Nasonville Dairy, Nasonville Dairy, Tom Dahmen, V&V Supremo Foods/ Inc., Marshfield, WI, Queso Blanco Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Chihuahua Cheese Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale, Hanford, CA EM Queso Panela Bulk...... 99.25 WA, Queso Fresco Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale, Karoun, Karoun Dairies Inc., San WA, Oaxaca Don Froylan, Don Froylan, Albany, OR, Panela Fernando, CA, Queso del Valle Panela...... 99.20 Fresca, traditional basket Dan Reed, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Vista Hector Larraga, Mexican Cheese Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Cheese Producers, Inc. (Sigma USA), Ball Darlington, WI, Queso Blanco Artisnal CLASS 43: LATIN AMERICAN Andy Rufener, V&V Supremo Foods/ Blanco Loaf...... 99.05 Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez STYLE MELTING CHEESES Chihuahua Cheese Foods, Inc., Modesto, CA, Panela...... 99.00 Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South BEST OF CLASS Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Wayne, WI, Asadero Wheel Sam Sweeney, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Foods/Chula Vista Cheese Co., Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Browntown, WI, Queso Fresco...... 99.00 Inc., Modesto, CA, Quesadilla/Menonita Cheese Ball...... 99.70 Hector Larraga, Mexican Cheese Specialty Cheese Company, Specialty SECOND AWARD Producers, Inc. (Sigma USA), Cheese Co., Inc., Reeseville, WI, Asadero Crave Brothers Team 2, Crave Brothers Darlington, WI, Queso Cremoso Pail...... 99.00 Farmstead Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Hansi Lehner Jr, Valley View Cheese, South Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Oaxaca...... 99.65 Wayne, WI, Quesadilla Foods, Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Caribe Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Grilling Cheese...... 98.95 THIRD AWARD NY, Queso Chihuahua Specialty Cheese Company, Specialty Mark Boelk, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Karoun, Karoun Dairies Inc., San Fernando, Cheese Co., Inc., Reeseville, WI, Queso Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, CA, Grilling cheese Fresco Chihuahua Cheese...... 99.60 Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Wayne, WI, Baby Jack Wheel Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Nick Siedschlag, V&V Supremo Foods/ Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, Makers‑Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Inc. (Sigma USA), Darlington, WI, Panela WI, Oaxaca Cheese Ball...... 99.50 Asadero (Quesadilla Style) Basket 4# John (Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Francisco Ochoa, Don Froylan, Albany, OR, Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese Arena, WI, Queso Para Fundir...... 99.50 Queso Oaxaca, hand stretched Makers‑Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Queso John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Panela Arena, WI, Asadero...... 99.40 NY, Queso Chihuahua Los Altos, Los Altos Food Products, City of Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Industry, CA, Fresco Brodhead, WI, Para Fundir...... 99.30 Wayne, WI, Asadero Wheel Michael Godfrey, Mexican Cheese El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese Makers‑ Producers, Inc. (Sigma USA), Darlington, Hanford, CA, Queso Oaxaca...... 99.20 WI, Queso Blanco Artisnal Loaf Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Queso Oaxaca John (Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Arena, WI, Queso Quesadilla...... 98.80 Inc., Modesto, CA, Fresco NY, Queso Chihuahua Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Brian Mundt, Mexican Cheese Producers, Farmstead Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, NY, Queso Pizza Cheese Cuc Inc (Sigma USA), Darlington, WI, Queso Oaxaca...... 98.75 Fresco Tradicional Pail

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 23 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, CA. EM Asadero Bulk CLASS 44: LATIN AMERICAN Hanford, CA, Queso Cotija Bar...... 98.40 Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Hector and Victor, Mexican Cheese Orland, CA, Cultured Queso STYLE HARD CHEESES Producers, Inc. (Sigma USA), Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Darlington, WI, Queso Cotija Wheel MG...... 97.65 BEST OF CLASS NY, Queso Chihuahua Brian and Victor, Mexican Cheese Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Producers, Inc. (Sigma USA), Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, Inc., Modesto, CA, Cotija...... 99.70 NY, Queso Pizza Cheese Cuc Darlington, WI, Queso Cotija Wheel...... 97.30 SECOND AWARD Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Union, Sheboygan, WI, Handstretched Clovis, NY, Queso Duro...... 97.25 Inc., Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel...... 98.80 Oaxaca El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int.,

THIRD AWARD Hanford, CA EM Cotija Enchilado Bar...... 97.00 Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Inc., Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel...... 98.75 Foods, Inc., Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel...... 97.00 Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Coatesville, PA, The Creamery Collection

Foods, Inc., Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel...... 98.60 Batch #15

24 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Willow Creek Creamery, Union Star Corp, Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Coatesville, PA, Black Swallowtail Fremont, WI, Red Willow Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Briana Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford NY, Queso Duro Company, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Specialty Cheese Company, Specialty ColoRouge Everton Premium Reserve Cheese Co., Inc., Reeseville, WI, Cotija Fons Smits, Tulip Tree Creamery, Tony Ellis, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, indianapolis, IN, foxglove Bay, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Italico NY, Queso Duro Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Briar Rose Creamery cheesemakers, Briar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Rose Creamery, Dundee, OR, Callisto NY, Queso Duro Ameribella 296 Spring Brook Farm, Spring Brook Farm Nuestro Queso, Hispanic Cheese Makers‑ Greensward, Murray’s Cheese & Jasper Hill, Cheese, Reading, VT, Ashbrook Nuestro Queso, Chicago, IL, Cotija Long Island City, NY, Greensward Aaron Langdon, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers Fons Smits, Tulip Tree Creamery LLC, Nicasio, CA, San Geronimo Union, Sheboygan, WI, Cotija Wheel Indianapolis, IN, Tigerlilly Joe Moreda, Jr. & Team, Valley Ford Cheese & Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, WI, Creamery, Valley Ford, CA, Highway 1 Roth GranQueso Cheese CLASS 46: WASHED RIND/ Woodcock, Woodcock Farm Cheese Specialty Cheese Company, Specialty Company, Weston, VT, 8‑Jan Cheese Co., Inc., Reeseville, WI, Traditional SMEAR RIPENED SEMI‑SOFT Mecox Bay Dairy, Mecox Bay Dairy, Cotija (SEMI‑HARD) CHEESES Bridgehampton, NY, Mecox Sunrise Von Trapp Farmstead, Cellars at Jasper Hill, BEST OF CLASS Greensboro, VT, Oma CLASS 45: WASHED RIND/ SMEAR Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford RIPENED SOFT CHEESES Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Everton...... 99.25 CLASS 47: WASHED RIND/ SMEAR BEST OF CLASS SECOND AWARD RIPENED HARD CHEESES Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Greensboro, VT, Winnimere...... 99.40 Coatesville, PA, Bathed in Victory...... 99.20 BEST OF CLASS SECOND AWARD THIRD AWARD Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Alpine Team LCD, Lake Country Dairy Spring Brook Farm Cheese and Wegmans WI, Roth Pavino Cheese...... 99.85 Schuman Cheese, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Food Market, Spring Brook Farm Cheese, SECOND AWARD Door Creamy Redhead...... 99.20 Reading, VT, The Full Ver‑monty...... 99.15 Andy Hatch, Uplands Cheese, Dodgeville, THIRD AWARD WI, Extra‑Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve...... 99.80 Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Spring Brook Farm, Spring Brook Farm THIRD AWARD Dairy, Bantam, CT, Arethusa Diva...... 99.00 Cheese, Reading, VT, Reading...... 99.10 Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Team Alpine ‑ Lake Country Dairy, Lake Greensboro, VT, Alpha Tolman...... 99.75 Briar Rose Creamery cheesemakers, Country Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Creamery Valis...... 99.10 Briar Rose Creamery, Dundee, OR, Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Phoebe...... 98.55 Sara Richards, Door Artisan Cheese WI, Roth Grand Cru Reserve Wheel...... 99.70 Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, WI, Valmy Joey Jaeggi, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Belgian Style Beer Washed Gouda...... 98.90 Monroe, WI, 8 oz. Limburger...... 98.55 WI, Roth’s Private Reserve Wheel...... 99.65 Joey Widmer, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Aaron Langdon, Nicasio Valley Cheese Spring Brook Farm, Spring Brook Farm Inc., Theresa, WI, Traditional Washed Co., Nicasio, CA, Nicasio Square...... 98.25 Cheese, Reading, VT, Tarentaise...... 99.60 Rind Aged Brick Cheese...... 98.60 Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, jackie chang, Haystack Mountain WI, Roth Monroe Cheese...... 98.20 WI, Roth Grand Cru Surchoix Wheel...... 99.60 creamery, Longmont, CO, Snowmass Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, Raclette...... 98.50 Andy Hatch, Uplands Cheese, West Pawlet, VT, Dorset...... 97.95 Dodgeville, WI, Pleasant Ridge Reserve...... 99.50 Petaluma, Cowgirl Creamery, Petaluma, Team Alpine ‑ Lake Country Dairy, Lake CA, Hop Along...... 98.40 Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Country Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow WI, Roth Original Grand Cru Wheel...... 99.40 Cornelia, Murray’s Cheese & Point Door Creamery Belloux...... 97.90 Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co., Long Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Jasper Hill Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Island City, NY, Cornelia...... 98.10 Dairy, Bantam, CT, Mt. Tom...... 99.35 Greensboro, VT, Willoughby...... 97.80 Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, West Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Pawlet, VT, Pawlet WI, Roth Organic Grand Cru Reserve Petaluma, CA, Schloss Wheel...... 99.35 Cheese Chalet, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Jackie Chang, Haystack Mountain Creamery, Milwaukee, WI, Liederkranz Longmont, CO, Funkmeister

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Country Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers...... 98.55 Creamery Altu Longhorn Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese,

Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Company, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Chateaugay, NY, Pepper Jack...... 98.55 Shullsburg, WI, Little Mountain Muscoda, WI, Pepper Jack Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, West Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, Pawlet, VT, Rupert Muscoda, WI, Pepper Jack CA, Hatch Jack Cheese Team Alpine ‑ Lake Country Dairy, Lake LaGrander’s Cheese Team # 3, LaGrander’s Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Country Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack NY, Habanero Jack Creamery Monteau Longhorn Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Project X, Murray’s Cheese & Spring Brook Global Foods International, Global Foods Muscoda, WI, Hotter Pepper Jack Farm, Long Island City, NY, Project X International, Schiller Park, IL, Naturally Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Oven‑Smoked Pepper Jack Cheese Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jalapeno Umarov Mikail, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Jack CLASS 48: PEPPER FLAVORED Falls, ID, Pepper Jack Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, MONTEREY JACK, MILD HEAT Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Muscoda, WI, Hotter Pepper Jack NY, Pepper Jack Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, BEST OF CLASS Ondriezek Aaron, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Muscoda, WI, Hotter Pepper Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Falls, ID, Pepper Jack MMPA Team/Heritage Ridge, Middlebury NY, Pepper Jack...... 99.30 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Cheese Plant, Middlebury, IN, Pepper SECOND AWARD Muscoda, WI, Pepper Jack Monterey Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Kirk Baldwin, Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, NY, Pepper Jack...... 98.75 Inc., Milbank, SD, Monterey Jack with blend Muscoda, WI, Hotter Pepper Jack of dill, lime and jalapenos THIRD AWARD Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Kirk Baldwin, Valley Queen Cheese Team Nasonville Dairy, Nasonville Dairy, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Chipotle Factory, Inc., Milbank, SD, Monterey Jack Inc., Marshfield, WI, Pepper Jack Jack Jalapeno with Mesquite smoke flavor...... 98.45 Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Milwaukee, WI, Pepper Jack Sriracha Jack

Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, Clovis, NY, Pepper Jack...... 98.35 CLASS 49: PEPPER FLAVORED CA, Chipotle Jack Cheese Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Monterey Jack with Jalapeno Peppers...... 98.05 MONTEREY JACK, MEDIUM HEAT Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Jerome Fredrick, Lynn Dairy, Inc., BEST OF CLASS Smoked Pepper Jack Granton, WI, Pepper Jack...... 97.75 Yusupov Bakhritdin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Twin Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 99.35 America, Beaver, UT, Habanero and Jalapeno Company, Muscoda, WI, Pepper Jack...... 97.65 Monterey Jack Cheese SECOND AWARD LaGrander’s Cheese Team #2, Heric Nadezda, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin LaGrander’e Hillside Dairy, Inc., Falls, ID, Red Habanero...... 99.30 Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack Longhorn...... 97.65 CLASS 50: PEPPER FLAVORED Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, THIRD AWARD MONTEREY JACK, HIGH HEAT Tillamook Pepper Jack...... 97.35 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NY, Habanero Jack...... 99.15 David Meyer, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, BEST OF CLASS Pepper Jack...... WI, 97.35 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis,

Team Arena, Arena Cheese Inc, Arena, WI, Bampa Natasa, Glanbia Nutritionals, NY, Ghost Pepper Jack...... 98.85

Pepper Jack Twin Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 99.10 SECOND AWARD Team Comstock, Comstock Creamery, Mayra Gomez, Glanbia Nutritionals, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Comstock, WI, Jalapeno Pepper Jack Twin Falls, ID, Red & Green Habanero...... 99.05 Habenero...... 98.75 Torres Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, THIRD AWARD ID, Pepper Jack Tillamook Pepper Jack...... 99.05 Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Habenero...... 98.35 America, Beaver, UT, Pepper Jack Clovis, NY, Habanero Jack...... 99.00 Andy Follen, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Vargas Paulina, Glanbia Nutritionals, Pepper Jack Clovis, NY, Habanero Jack...... 98.70 Twin Falls, ID, Ghost Pepper...... 98.30 Rearick John, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Falls, ID, Pepper Jack Farms, Maker of Joseph Farms

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 27 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Team Comstock, Comstock Creamery, Zahirovic Samir, Glanbia Nutritionals,

Company, Muscoda, WI, Sweet Fire Comstock, WI, Habanero Ghost Pepper Jack Twin Falls, ID, White Cheddar /Peppers...... 98.75 Mango...... 98.25 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC,

Pedraza Alma, Glanbia Nutritionals, Muscoda, WI, Sweet Fire Mango Clovis, NY, Southwest Reserve...... 98.50 Twin Falls, ID, Red & Green Habanero...... 98.20 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC,

Smriko Adelita, Glanbia Nutritionals, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jack the Clovis, NY, Southwest Reserve...... 98.50 Twin Falls, ID, Red Habanero...... 98.15 Reaper Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery,

Swinney Maryann, Glanbia Monticello, WI, Pepper Havarti...... 98.45 Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Red Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Habanero...... 98.10 CLASS 51: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER WI, Roth Jalapeno Havarti Cheese...... 98.35 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple FLAVORED CHEESE, MILD HEAT John(Randy), Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, Arena, WI, Mild Chili Pepper Muenster...... 98.25 WI, Habanero Jack...... 98.00 BEST OF CLASS Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Inc., Clovis, NY, Ghost Pepper Jack...... 97.90 10 lb Chipotle Gouda Wheel...... 99.30 Theresa, WI, Jalapeno Cheddar...... 98.05 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, SECOND AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NY, Ghost Pepper Jack Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, NY, Southwest Reserve WI, 10 lb Chipotle Gouda Wheel...... 99.20 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Andy Rufener, V&V Supremo Foods/ NY, Ghost Pepper Jack THIRD AWARD Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers Cheese, Plain, WI, Super Hot Monterey Jack Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Hatch Pepper...... 98.80 John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Mild Chili Pepper Brick

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28 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Atkins Colby, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Peppers CLASS 52: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Hot Buffalo Wing Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Cheddar Monticello, WI, Pepper Muenster FLAVORED CHEESE, MEDIUM HEAT Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Dennis Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti Pepper BEST OF CLASS WI, 10 lb Chipotle Gouda Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Cotroneo Matt, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Petaluma, CA, Petite Jalapeño Nick Siedschlag, V&V Supremo Foods/ Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Peppers...... 99.40 Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers SECOND AWARD Monticello, WI, Habanero Havarti Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Marieke Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Courtney and Shawn Covell, High Country WI, Roth Chipotle Havarti Cheese...... 99.30 Marieke Gouda Jalapeno Creamery, Grantsville, MD, Sparky’s Fury Team Agropur, Agropur, Hull, IA, Southwest THIRD AWARD Hot Pepper Cheddar Blend Monterey Jack Navarrete Abel, Glanbia Nutritionals, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Twin Falls, ID, Chipotle Cheddar Color...... 99.20 Cucic Haris, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Cabot, VT, Pepper Colby Jack ID, Chipotle Cheddar Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Sam Sweeney, V&V Supremo Foods/ Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, WI, Havarti with Pepper Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Chipotle Mix...... 99.15 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers Carey Travis, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin NY, Habanero Colby Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Falls, ID, Chipotle Cheddar Color...... 99.05 Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, NY, Southwest Reserve John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Fresno, OH, Pepper Jack Deli Horn Valley View Cheese, Valley View Cheese, Arena, WI, Mede. Chili Habanero Pepper Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, South Wayne, WI, Jalapeno Cheddar Muenster...... 99.05 NY, Habanero Colby Jack Banjac Alex, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Paxton Joshua, Glanbia Nutritionals, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Falls, ID, Colby Jack/Peppers Twin Falls, ID, Colby Jack/Pepper...... 99.00 NY, Habanero Colby Jack John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Scott Lopas, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Francisco Ochoa, Don Froylan, Albany, OR, Arena, WI, Mild Chili Pepper Quesadilla 9lb Jalapeno Havarti Loaf...... 99.00 Queso Botanero with fresh jalapeno & cilantro Losurdo Foods Fresh Mozzarella Line, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Losurdo foods Inc, Heuvelton, NY, Arena, WI, Med. Chili Habanero Pepper Marinated Fresh Mozzarella with Peppadew Brick...... 99.00 CLASS 53: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, FLAVORED CHEESE, HIGH HEAT WA, Fuego Arena, WI, Med. Chili Habenero Pepper Quesadilla...... 98.95 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr BEST OF CLASS Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Wildfire Blue Honesdale, PA, Pepper Cheese Arena, WI, Habanero Ghost Pepper

Quesadilla...... 99.55 Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 9 IN, Pepper Havarti lb Jalapeno Havarti Loaf SECOND AWARD Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Widmer’s Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Jalapeno WI, Odyssey Sweet Heat Feta Arena, WI, Habanero Ghost Pepper Brick Cheese Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Muenster...... 99.50 Molly Patterson, V&V Supremo Foods/ NY, Habanero Colby Jack THIRD AWARD Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese,

Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers Muscoda, WI, 3‑Pepper Block Arena, WI, Habanero Ghost Pepper Brick...... 99.40 Henning Cheese, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Joshua Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Hatch Chile Cheddar Mango Fire Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, Los Altos, Los Altos Food Products, City of Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, WI, Roth Sriracha Gouda Cheese...... 99.35 Industry, CA, Panela with Jalapeño Muscoda, WI, 3‑Pepper Block Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 9 Milwaukee, WI, Ghost Pepper Cheddar...... 99.30 Orland, CA, Cultured Queso w/Jalapeno lb Jalapeno Havarti Loaf Kober Ryan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Widmer’s Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 9 Falls, ID, Red Habanero Colby Jack...... 99.25 Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Jalapeno lb Jalapeno Havarti Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Colby MMPA Team/Heritage Ridge, Middlebury Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The

Cheese Plant, Middlebury, IN, Pepper Rattlesnake...... 99.25 Cheese Johnson Brad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Twin Falls, ID, Ghost Pepper White

IN, Habanero Havarti Cheddar...... 99.05

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 29 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Lake Country Dairy, Lake Country Joe Moreda, Jr. & Team, Valley Ford Company, Muscoda, WI, Ghost Pepper Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Thick and Cheese & Creamery, Valley Ford, CA,

CJ...... 99.05 Smooth Mascarpone...... 99.40 Estero Gold...... 98.60 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Aaron Langdon, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int.,

Clovis, NY, Ghost Pepper Colby Jack...... 98.95 Nicasio, CA, Foggy Morning Hanford, CA EM Queso Casero Bulk...... 98.55 Pacheco Jose, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Clock Shadow Creamery Team, Cedar Grove Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe,

Falls, ID, Red Habanero Color Cheddar Cheese Inc, Plain, WI, Quark WI, Roth Original Prairie Sunset Wheel...... 98.50 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, IL, Ben Workman, Hoards Dairyman

NY, Ghost Pepper Colby Jack Low‑fat Farmer Cheese Salted Creamery, Fort Atkinson, WI, Belaire...... 98.25 Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Valley View cheese, Valley View Cheese, Cabot, VT, Habenero Cheddar Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, South Wayne, WI, Butterkase Turner Dave, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Mascarpone Dennis Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Falls, ID, Red Habanero Color Cheddar Tom Pintar, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green WI, 24 lb Fontina Team Mesiter 1, Meister Cheese Company, Bay, WI, BelGioioso Mascarpone Team Lake Country Dairy, Lake Country Muscoda, WI, Ghost Pepper CJ Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Fontal Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Creamery, Providence, RI, Crescendo Team Lake Country Dairy, Lake Country NY, Ghost Pepper Colby Jack Stracchino di Crescenza Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Fontal Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Monroe, WI, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East Roth 3 Chile Pepper Gouda Cheese Websterville, VT, Mascarpone Haven, CT, SCAMORZA Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Trace Peterson, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, NY, Ghost Pepper Colby Jack Websterville, VT, Fromage Blanc 24 lb Fontina Mosco, Fox, Pritchard, Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, NY, Ghost Pepper Cheddar Orland, CA, OFC original creation, low Monticello, WI, Bel Paese moisture cottage cheese Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Fresno, OH, Super Hot Jumping Jack Deli Horn Di Stefano Cheese, Di Stefano Cheese, 24 lb Fontina Pomona, CA, Mascarpone Cheese Marieke Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Paul Schmidt, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Marieke Golden Orland, CA, Fromage Blanc CLASS 54: OPEN CLASS: SOFT CHEESES Calyroad Creamery, Calyroad Creamery, Briar Rose Creamery cheesemakers, Briar Sandy Springs, GA, Hilderbrand Tomme BEST OF CLASS Rose Creamery, Dundee, OR, Fromage Blanc McCormack, Spikes, Fox, Laird, Yancey’s Randy Wolter, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Fancy, Corfu, NY, Bergenost Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Crema di Websterville, VT, Quark Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Mascarpone...... 99.70 Monticello, WI, Butterkase SECOND AWARD Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe El Mexicano, Marquez Brother Int., CLASS 55: OPEN CLASS: Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Fontina Hanford, CA, Queso Fresco Cremoso...... 99.65 SEMI‑SOFT CHEESES Wheel THIRD AWARD Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, BEST OF CLASS Nampa Mascarpone Team, Lactalis Petaluma, CA, Petite Breakfast American Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Trevor Laack & Crew, Dupont Cheese Inc, Coatesville, PA, Seven Sisters...... 99.70 Mascarpone...... 99.60 Marion, WI, Yogurt SECOND AWARD Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead, Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Ludwig Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Ferndale, WA, Caciotta Farmstead Creamery, Fithan, IL, Campbell, NY, Ricottone...... 99.55 Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East 12142018...... 99.00 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Haven, CT, Caciocavallo Websterville, VT, Crème Fraîche...... 99.50 THIRD AWARD Gary Vaughn, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Jim Demeter, Door Artisan Cheese Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., Middlefield, OH, Lacey Swiss Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, WI, Zivile East Haven, CT, MASCARPONE...... 99.45 Swedish Style Fontina...... 98.85 Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Chris Gezella, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Cheese, Plain, WI, Butterkaese Green Bay, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Gary Vaughn, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Crescenza‑Stracchino...... 99.45 Rudy Yoder, Farmer Rudolph’s, Lebanon, Middlefield, OH, Lacey Swiss Lake Country Dairy, Lake Country PA, Susquehanna...... 98.80 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Rich & Clayton C, Foremost Farms USA, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Creamy Mascarpone...... 99.45 Clayton, WI, No Smoke...... 98.80 Fontina Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Campbell, NY, Ricottone...... 99.40 Farmstead Cheese Company, Point Arena, WI, Farmer Cheese Reyes, CA, Point Reyes Toma...... 98.60

30 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST MMPA Team/Heritage Ridge, Middlebury Team Saxon Cheese, Saxon Cheese LLC, Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Cheese Plant, Middlebury, IN, Semi‑soft Cleveland, WI, Saxony‑ Alpine Style Platteville, WI, Roth Grand Cru Original cheese Mike Brennenstuhl/Jim Demeter, Red Barn Block...... 98.65 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Family Farms, Appleton, WI, Cupola Artisan Mecox Bay Dairy, Mecox Bay Dairy,

Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Cheese Bridgehampton, NY, Sigit...... 98.30 Maustoner Team Central Coast, Central Coast Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm

Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Bishops Peak Dairy, Bantam, CT, Tapping Reeve...... 98.25 Cheesemaker, Inc., Monroe, WI, Fontina Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Joe Moreda, Jr. & Team, Valley Ford Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Milwaukee, WI, Cheddar Cheese with & Creamery, Valley Ford, CA, Estero Gold Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Parmesan Notes Reserve Creama Kasa Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Mike Brennenstuhl, Door Artisan Cheese Cheesemakers Union Team, Cheesemakers Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Romano Wheel Company, LLC, Egg Harbor, WI, BelaSardo Union, Sheboygan, WI, Cows Milk Manchego Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese of Milwaukee, WI, Black Creek® Cheddar Wisconsin, Darlington, WI, Avondale Cheese with Gruyere Notes Truckle CLASS 56: OPEN CLASS: HARD CHEESES Noble Brothers, Noble View Cheese Andrea Cudin, Lira Rossa Artisan Cheese, Company Inc, Adell, WI, Dover Fields‑Extra Moulton, TX, Latteria cheese BEST OF CLASS Aged Reserve Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Bailey, Del Priore, Mosco, Yancey’s Fancy, Honesdale, PA, Natural Rind Cheese Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Premium...... 98.85 Corfu, NY, Chastinet Greg, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, MO, SECOND AWARD Pollock Cheese Team, DairiConcepts, Natural Rind Cheese Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Pollock, SD, 40 lb block Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Co, Shullsburg, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Mature...... 98.70 Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country WI, Dunbarton THIRD AWARD Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Cello Romano Landaff Creamery, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Greensboro, VT, Landaff WI, Sartori Reserve BellaVitano Gold...... 98.55 Inc., Algoma, WI, Cloverleaf Grand Reserve Merion Park Cheese Company, LLC, Merion Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Ludwig Park Cheese Company, LLC, merion Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Farmstead Creamery, Fithan, IL, 2162018 station, PA, Mercer Road Tillamook Cape Meares ‑Sweet Nutty The Fiscalini Team, Fiscalini Cheese Co, Merion Park Cheese, Merion Park Cheese English Style Cheddar...... 98.45 Modesto, CA, San Joaquin Gold Company, LLC, merion station, PA, Martha Marieke Gouda Team, Holland’s Family Street ‑ Curd Washed in Ale Cheese, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Overjarige...... 98.40 CLASS 57: OPEN CLASS: HARD Mike Brennenstuhl/Jim Demeter, Red CHEESES WITH NATURAL RIND CLASS 58: OPEN CLASS: Barn Family Farms, Appleton, WI, FLAVORED SOFT CHEESES Cupola Artisan Cheese...... 98.30 BEST OF CLASS Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Platteville, BEST OF CLASS

Tillamook Cape Meares ‑Sweet Nutty WI, Roth Grand Cru Reserve Block...... 99.40 Nampa Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis

English Style Cheddar...... 98.10 American Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani SECOND AWARD Fresh Mozzarella Marinated...... 99.40 John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Oakdale, CA, Stanislaus Reserve...... 97.95 Coatesville, PA, St. Malachi Reserves...... 99.25 SECOND AWARD Brandon Blohm, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Rose Boero, Tea Rose Toggenburgs LLC, THIRD AWARD Green Bay, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Custer, WI, Moo‑Sa‑Bee...... 99.25 Team Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, Artigiano Classico...... 97.95 Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase 6 mon...... 99.10 THIRD AWARD Team LCD, Lake Country Dairy Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Schuman Cheese, Turtle Lake, WI, Websterville, VT, Crème Fraîche Cello SnowBound “Parm meets Gouda”...... 97.70 Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Madagascar Vanilla...... 99.10 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Coatesville, PA, St. Malachi Extra Aged Reserves...... 99.00 Blackfoot, ID, 4/8 Gruyere 2 Lait Bloomer, Murray’s Cheese & Jasper Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Hill, Long Island City, NY, Lait Bloomer...... 98.85 MD, Batch 1 Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian WI, Aged Fontina...... 98.85 Marieke Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Marieke Golden Flavored Cheese Bites ‑ Dill...... 98.75 Coatesville, PA, St. Malachi...... 98.80 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Blackfoot, ID, 4/8 Gruyere Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Cheese Company, WILLOWS, CA, Dry Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Flavored Mini Cheese Bites‑ Truffle Oil & Monterey Jack Wheel...... 98.75 Coatesville, PA, Aged Seven Sisters Basil...... 98.60

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 31 Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NY, CLASS 59: OPEN CLASS: FLAVORED Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Creamery Blanco with Jalepeño...... 98.55 Bergamot Hibiscus Rubbed Fontal Rifraf Ricotta Cups, Real Good Dairy SEMI‑SOFT (SEMI‑HARD) CHEESES Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., llc, Brooklyn, NY, Rifraf Ricotta Cups ‑ Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Basil Pesto BEST OF CLASS Wildflower Honey...... 98.55 Fontinella® Bampa Dalibor, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Emilio Torres, BelGioioso Cheese Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Falls, ID, Monterey Jack/ Cracked Black Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Creamery pepper...... 99.35 Zesty Marinated Hand Braided Fresh Cederberg Spice Rubbed Fontina Cheese Mozzarella...... 98.40 SECOND AWARD Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Silvio Strada, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Harissa Fontinella® Arena, WI, Caraway Brick...... 99.20 Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Burrata with John Christopherson, Widmer’s Cheese Black Truffles...... 98.40 THIRD AWARD Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Vegetable Colby Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Widmer’s Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Caraway Flavored Mini Cheese Bites‑ Marinated Cowboy Jack...... 99.15 Brick Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Team Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Fennel Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Marin French Cheese, Marin French Jack Marinated Fresh Mozzarella Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Petite Truffle...... 99.10 Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Ole Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Bourbonista™ Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 7oz Brie Grove Cheese, Plain, WI, Spring Onion Fontinella® Wedge With Herbs Monterey Jack...... 99.05 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Rifraf Ricotta Cups, Real Good Dairy llc, Villagomez Jose, Glanbia Nutritionals, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Brooklyn, NY, Rifraf Ricotta Cups ‑ Sundried Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack/Green Fontina de Provence Tomato Olives & Pimento...... 99.00 Almena, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Milwaukee, WI, Stella® Black Pepper Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NJ, Blanco Arena, WI, Caraway Muenster...... 98.95 Fontinella® with garlic Team Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Nettle Meadow Team, Nettle Meadow Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, Garam Masala Jack...... 98.80 Cheese, Warrensburg, NY, Partridge IL, Truffle Ovolini Mountain Team Agropur, Agropur, Hull, IA, Italian Rifraf Ricotta Cups, Real Good Dairy Blend...... 98.75 llc, Brooklyn, NY, Rifraf Ricotta Cups ‑ Strawberry Balsamic The Artisian Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The CLASS 60: OPEN CLASS: Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Carawaybou...... 98.75 FLAVORED HARD CHEESES Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Brie With Herbs Dustin Wallendal, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Inc., Theresa, WI, Caraway Colby BEST OF CLASS Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Griselda Arevalo, Glanbia Nutritionals, WI, Sartori Reserve Espresso BellaVitano...... 99.65 Marinated Fresh Mozzarella Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack/Green Olives & Pimento SECOND AWARD Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Zachary Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Sun Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian WI, Peppercorn Cheddar...... 99.50 Dried Tomatoes & Fresh Basil Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Flavored Cheese Bite Minis‑ Everything Bagel Aaron Langdon, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., THIRD AWARD Nicasio, CA, Foggy Morning with Garlicand Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Cut & Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Basil Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Everything Bagel Mayan Cocoa Coffee Rubbed Fontina Cheddar...... 99.40 Rifraf Ricotta Cups, Real Good Dairy llc, Brooklyn, NY, Rifraf Ricotta Cups ‑ Meyer Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Petite Mustard Lemon Zuko Mirsad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Lake Country Dairy Team, Lake Country Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Green Olives & Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3KG Brie Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI, Yellow Door Creamery Pimento...... 99.35 Tuscan Rubbed Fontina with Tomato Basil Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Artisan Cheese Exchange/Carr Valley Blackfoot, Blackfoot, ID, Cracked Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Fresh Cheese, Artisan Cheese Exchange, Pepper...... 99.10 Sheboygan, WI, Deer Creek The Blue Jay Mozzarella & Grilled Vegetables Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Mosco, Romesser, Del Mastero, Westling, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Black Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Brie Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, NY, Bergenost with Pepper BellaVitano...... 99.05 With Peppercorns Caraway and Scallion

32 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Vanic Mathew, Glanbia Nutritionals, Barringer Phil, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Twin Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Green Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Chives CLASS 61: OPEN CLASS: FLAVORED Olives & Pimento...... 98.95 The Fiscalini Team, Fiscalini Cheese Co, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Modesto, CA, Craft Cheddar CHEESES WITH SWEET CONDIMENTS Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Courtney and Shawn Covell, High Country BEST OF CLASS Rosemary & Olive Oil Asiago...... 98.95 Creamery, Grantsville, MD, Krabbe Kase Davide Toffolon, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Cut & Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery (Sea Food Seasonings) Cheddar Green Bay, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Tuscan Steve Bierhals, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Artigiano Vino Rosso...... 99.00 Encrusted Cheddar...... 98.70 Green Bay, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Artigiano Aged Balsamic & Cipolline Onion SECOND AWARD Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Balsamic Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Thorp, WI, Marieke Thorp Cheese...... 98.95 BellaVitano...... 98.65 Blackfoot, ID, Cracked Pepper Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, THIRD AWARD Inc., Algoma, WI, Tuscan Rosemary Garlic Brattleboro, VT, Shallot and White Pepper Team Sartori, Sartori Company, White Cheddar Cheddar Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Chardonnay BellaVitano...... 98.70 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Blackfoot, ID, Cracked Pepper Inc., Algoma, WI, Balsamic Caramelized Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Onion White Cheddar Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Chateaugay, NY, Smoky Bacon Cheddar Beaver Cheese Team, Dairy Farmers of Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Merlot The Fiscalini Team, Fiscalini Cheese Co, America, Beaver, UT, Green Onion Monterey BellaVitano...... 98.65 Modesto, CA, Habanero Cheddar Jack Coates Derrick, Glanbia Nutritionals,

Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack & Pecans...... 98.45

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 33 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, Ferndale, WA, Smoky Scamorza Raspberry BellaVitano...... 98.45 WI, Smoked Jalapeno Jack...... 99.00 Trace Peterson, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 9 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Heath Joan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin lb Havarti Loaf Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda HoneyClover...... 98.30 Falls, ID, Smoked Monterey Jack...... 98.90 Greg Corpus, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 5 lb Courtney and Shawn Covell, High Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Edam Loaf Country Creamery and Market, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Ben Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Grantsville, MD, Rev Reserve Coffee Valle, WI, Smoked Glacier Blue...... 98.90 Monticello, WI, Smoked Butterkase Cheddar...... 98.15 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Di Stefano Cheese, Di Stefano Cheese, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked Pomona, CA, Smoked Scamorza Clovis, NY, Cranberry Mango Monterey Cumin...... 98.90 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Jack...... 98.00 Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Smoked Team Sartori, Sartori Company, WI, 9 lb Havati Loaf...... 98.60 Habanero Jack Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Global Foods International, Global Foods Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano...... 98.00 International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked IN, Smoked Butterkase Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Natural Havarti NY, Cranberry Mango Monterey Jack Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Daniel Wavrin, Daniel’s Artisan, Ferndale, WI, Smoked Brick Smoked Creama Kasa WA, Bonneville Jesser Kevin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Rose Boero, Tea Rose Toggenburgs LLC, Falls, ID, Smoked Monterey Jack IN, Smoked Sweet Swiss Custer, WI, Tea Rose Lemon Quark Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Joey Jaeggi, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Monroe, Chocker Thomas, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick WI, Smoked Le` Bec Falls, ID, Monterey Jack/Walnuts Team 3, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, Pre‑Sliced Smoked Fresh Mozzarella Cranberry Chipotle Cheddar SD, Smoked Low Moisture Whole Milk Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Mozzarella Kiel, WI, Deer Creek The Moon Rabbit Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr CLASS 63: OPEN CLASS: The Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, SMOKED HARD CHEESES Cheese, Kiel, WI, The Night Walker Smoked Fontina Harris Dennis, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, BEST OF CLASS Falls, ID, Monterey Jack / Pecan and Blueberry WI, Smoked Meditteranean Herb Havarti Global Foods International, Global Foods crumble Team 4, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick Natural Aged White Cheddar Loaf...... 99.00 Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, SECOND AWARD CLASS 62: OPEN CLASS: SMOKED 5 lb Edam Loaf Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, SOFT AND SEMI‑SOFT CHEESES Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Colored Cheddar with Smoke flavoring...... 98.60 Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS Old Europe Cheese Team, Old Europe Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, Natural 15‑18 month Smoked...... 98.55 Haven, CT, Smoked Burrata...... 99.80 Smoked Gouda SECOND AWARD Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Global Foods International, Global Foods Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Smoked Tillamook Extra Sharp Smoked...... 98.50 International, Schiller Park, IL, Double Fontina Smoked Mozzarella...... 99.30 Jones Jeff, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Falls, ID, Smoked Color Cheddar...... 98.45 THIRD AWARD Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked Kelm Melissa, Glanbia Nutritionals, Jean‑Louis Berthier, Glanbia Nutritionals, Salemville, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Twin Falls, ID, Smoked Color Cheddar...... 98.10 Twin Falls, ID, Smoked Monterey Jack...... 99.05 Milwaukee, WI, Smokehaus Blue Cheese® Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Global Foods International, Global Foods Clovis, NY, Smoked Mild Cheddar...... 97.80 Rumiano Cheese Company / DFA, International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Rumiano Cheese Company, Willows, Natural Mozzarella Loaf Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Milwaukee, WI, Black Creek® Double CA, Smoked Mozzarella Loaf...... 99.00 Jamie Fahrney, Chalet Cheese Co‑op, Smoked Cheddar...... 97.75 Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Monroe, WI, Smoked Mini Baby Swiss Wheel Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Brodhead, WI, Smoked Pepper Havarti...... 99.00 Caves of Faribault Team, Prairie Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, Farms‑Caves of Faribault, Faribault, MN, WI, Smoked Cheddar...... 97.60 Smoked AmaBlu Blue Cheese

34 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese Inc., Kim Blain, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced Fat Sam Metzger, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced

Fresno, OH, Smoked Swiss...... 97.55 Monterey Jack ‑ Cut from 640...... 98.70 Fat Cheddar ‑ Cut from 640...... 98.20 The Fiscalini Team, Fiscalini Cheese Co, Justin Lowery, Klondike Cheese Co., Nickell James, Glanbia Nutritionals,

Modesto, CA, Smoked Cheddar Monroe, WI, Odyssey Reduced Fat Twin Falls, ID, Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 98.10 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Peppercorn Feta...... 98.65 Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery NY, Smoked Mild Cheddar Rudolf Jozelic, Glanbia Nutritionals, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, 50% Reduced Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Twin Falls, ID, Reduced Fat MJ...... 98.55 Fat Cheddar...... 98.10 Cheddar Medium Smoked Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, Pittman Joey, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Pineland Farms Dairy, Pineland Farms WI, Reduced Fat Feta...... 98.55 Falls, ID, Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 98.05 Dairy, Bangor, ME, Block Cheddar Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Oberg Jeff, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Muscoda, WI, Reduced Fat Colby‑Jack Falls, ID, Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 97.95 NY, Smoked Mild Cheddar Randy Timm, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Morfin Troy, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, reduced fat feta ID, Smoked Color Cheddar New Wilmington, Dairy Farmers of America, CLASS 66: LOWFAT CHEESES Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook New Wilmington, PA, Reduced Fat Provolone BEST OF CLASS Smoked Medium Cheddar 1006 Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Mulchay Nicola, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Monroe, WI, Odyssey Fat Free Feta...... 98.50 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Falls, ID, Reduced Fat MJ Apple Smoked Cheddar Clayton D, Foremost Farms USA, Clayton, SECOND AWARD Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Global Foods International, Global Foods WI, Reduced Fat Buffalo, NY, Low Fat Ricotta...... 98.45 International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Team Mesiter 2, Meister Cheese Company, Natural Colby Jack Muscoda, WI, Reduced Fat Colby‑Jack THIRD AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Kristi Hughes, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, NY, Smoked Mild Cheddar WI, Odyssey Reduced Fat Feta SD, Lite Mozzarella...... 98.40 GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Nampa String Team, Lactalis American Brattleboro, VT, Smoked Chili Cheddar Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani Reduced Fat Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., String Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Buffalo, NY, Low Fat Ricotta...... 98.25 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Joe Breske, Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Dave Zielazowski, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Apple Smoked Garlic Cheddar Inc., Milbank, SD, Reduced Fat Colby Merrill, WI, Rondelé Garlic & Herbs Monterey Jack GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 98.25 Brattleboro, VT, Maple Smoked Cheddar Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Reduced Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Fat Monterey Jack CFC‑Grafton Village Cheese, Crown Finish Monroe, WI, Odyssey Low Fat Feta...... 98.25 Caves, Brooklyn, NY, Barnburner Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Ricotta, Lactalis American Group, Inc., IN, Laccey Swiss Buffalo, NY, Low Fat Ricotta...... 97.95 Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple CLASS 64: REDUCED FAT SOFT SD, Reduced Fat Mozzarella Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, & SEMI‑SOFT CHEESES WI, Low Fat Cheddar...... 97.80 Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega,

BEST OF CLASS CLASS 65: REDUCED FAT HARD CHEESES WI, Fat Free Feta...... 97.70 John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Arena, WI, Reduced Fat Brick...... 99.55 BEST OF CLASS Fat Free Feta...... 97.40 Bob Wheeler, Valley Queen Cheese Factory, SECOND AWARD Inc., Milbank, SD, Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 99.15 Juan Carlos Rodriquez, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced Fat Monterey Jack ‑ Cut from 640...... 99.25 SECOND AWARD CLASS 67: REDUCED SODIUM CHEESES Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, THIRD AWARD Muscoda, WI, Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 98.80 BEST OF CLASS Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, reduced fat feta...... 99.05 THIRD AWARD Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Arena, WI, Reduced Sodium Muenster...... 99.35 Cabot, VT, 50% Reduced Fat Jalapeno SECOND AWARD John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Cheddar...... 98.65 Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Arena, WI, Reduced Fat Muenster...... 99.00 reduced sodium provolone...... 99.15 Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Reduced Fat Andy Kaskie, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced THIRD AWARD Fat Cheddar ‑ Cut from 640...... 98.35 Mediterranean Feta...... 99.00 Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, reduced sodium provolone...... 99.10 Chip Hoag, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced Fat Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Muscoda, WI, Reduced Fat Monterey Jack ‑ Cut from 640...... 98.80 Cheddar...... 98.35

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 35 Gary Sloan Jr., Rothenbuhler Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Wms Team One, Williams Cheese Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Inc., Newton, WI, Swiss and Almond Company, Linwood, MI, Original

Reduced Sodium Swiss...... 99.00 Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 99.50 Horseradish Cold Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.80 Team 4, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Michael Butterbrodt, Lactalis U.S.A.,

Wayne, WI, RS Muenster...... 99.00 Inc., Newton, WI, Chunky Bleu Cold Inc., Merrill, WI, Black Diamond John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Pack Cheese Food...... 99.50 Cheddar Merlot Spreadable Cheese...... 98.80

Arena, WI, Reduced Sodium Brick...... 98.95 Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese Gary Vaughn, Rothenbuhler Inc., Newton, WI, Wisconsin Ale Haus LLC, Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 99.50 Spicy Lager Cold Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.70

Reduced Sodium Swiss...... 98.65 Widmer’s Cheese Cellars Team, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Inc., Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Norden, SD, Reduced Sodium Low Theresa, WI, Brick Spread...... 99.50 Valle, WI, Budweiser Cheese Spread...... 98.65

Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 98.45 Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Team Merkts, Bel Brands USA, Little Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Mayville, WI, Sharp Cheddar...... 99.35 Chute, WI, Merkts Horseradish...... 98.60 Norden, SD, Reduced Sodium Low Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA,

Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella...... 98.35 Mayville, WI, Port Wine...... 99.10 Little Chute, WI, Merkts Port Wine Cold Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.55

Fresno, OH, Lacey Swiss...... 97.25 Inc., Newton, WI, White Cheddar Port Original Herkimer Cheese, Original Team Lake Norden, Agropur, Lake Norden, Wine Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 99.00 Herkimer Cheese, Herkimer, NY, Creamery SD, Reduced Sodium Provolone Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Inc., Reserve Spicy Tomato Cheese Spread Kelly Herrgesell, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Newton, WI, Horseradish Flavor Cold Pack Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Falls, ID, Reduced Sodium Cheddar Cheese Food Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Late Harvest Wine Spread Team 3, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Low Salt Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Inc., Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Newton, WI, Port Wine Cold Pack Cheese Food Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Original Herkimer Cheese, Original Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Aged Asiago Cheese Spread Wayne, WI, RS Muenster Herkimer Cheese, Herkimer, NY, Smoked Gouda Cold Pack Cheese Food Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Team 3, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Chute, WI, Kaukauna Port Wine Spreadable Wayne, WI, RS Muenster Original Herkimer Cheese, Original Herkimer Cheese, Herkimer, NY, Port Wine Cheese Kent Levi, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Cold Pack Cheese Food Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, ID, Reduced Sodium Cheddar Pine River, Saputo Cheese USA Inc, Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase w/Riesling Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Milwaukee, WI, Black Creek® Sharp Cheddar Wine Cold Pack Cheese Spread RS Muenster Wayne, WI, Cheese Spread Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, Original Herkimer Cheese, Original Chute, WI, Merkts Sharp Cheddar Cold Pack Lacey Swiss IN, Herkimer Cheese, Herkimer, NY, Beer Cold Cheese Spread Searle Justin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Pack Cheese Food Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Falls, ID, Reduced Sodium Cheddar Little Chute, WI, Kaukauna Sharp Spreadable Cheese CLASS 69: COLD PACK CHEESE SPREADS Team Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, CLASS 68: COLD PACK Cleveland, WI, Big Ed’s Gouda Cold Pack CHEESE, CHEESE FOOD BEST OF CLASS Cheese Spread Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Inc., Debbie, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, BEST OF CLASS Newton, WI, Pepper Jack Cold Pack Cheese MO, Butter Spread...... 99.25 Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Inc., Team Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, Newton, WI, Garlic and Herb Cold Pack SECOND AWARD Cleveland, WI, Pastures English Cheddar Cold Cheese Food...... 99.70 Brian Storm, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Pack Cheese Spread SECOND AWARD WI, Black Diamond Cheddar Chardonnay Cedar Grove Glas Team, Cedar Grove Team Pine River, Pine River Pre‑Pack, Spreadable Cheese...... 99.20 Cheese, Plain, WI, Mango Habanero Cheddar Spread Inc., Newton, WI, Aged Asiago Cold Pack THIRD AWARD Cheese Food...... 99.60 Lon Riedel, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, THIRD AWARD WI, Black Diamond Extra Sharp Cheddar Mayville, WI, Port Wine Snack Spread Original Herkimer Cheese, Original Spreadable Cheese...... 98.90 Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Herkimer Cheese, Herkimer, NY, Mild Linwood, MI, Original Cheddar Cold Pack

Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 99.55 Cheese Spread Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Bebbie, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, MO, Butter Valle, WI, Swiss Almond Cheese Spread...... 98.85

36 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Mayville, WI, Cheddar Snack Spread CLASS 71: FLAVORED SPREADABLE CLASS 72: PASTEURIZED Cedar Grove Glas Team, Cedar Grove Cheese Inc, Plain, WI, Sharp Cheddar Spread NATURAL CHEESES PROCESS CHEESES Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Chute, WI, Merkts Swiss Almond Kraft Heinz Lowville, Kraft Heinz, Gilman Cheese Corporation, Gilman Lowville, NY, Philadelphia Garden Cheese Corporation, Gilman, WI, Shelf

Vegetable Cream Cheese...... 99.45 Stable Ultra Sharp...... 98.50 CLASS 70: SPREADABLE SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD NATURAL CHEESES Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Rochester, Prairie Farms Cheese Division,

New Holland, PA, Alouette Parmesan & Rochester, MN, Swiss American...... 98.20 BEST OF CLASS Basil Soft Spreadable Cheese...... 98.80 Kraft Heinz Lowville, Kraft Heinz, THIRD AWARD Lowville, NY, Philadelphia 8oz Original THIRD AWARD Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk

Cream Cheese...... 98.80 Kraft Heinz Lowville, Kraft Heinz, Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, Colored Lowville, NY, Philadelphia Chive Whip American Past Process Cheese Loaf...... 97.50 SECOND AWARD Cream Cheese...... 98.70 Luana Cream Cheese Team, Prairie Farms,

Monona, IA, Cream Cheese...... 98.35 Nick Streble, Wohlt Creamery, New Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, London, WI, Swiss American...... 97.40 THIRD AWARD New Holland, PA, Alouette Smoky Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Luana Team, Prairie Farms, Monona, IA, Jalapeno Soft Spreadable Cheese...... 98.50 Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, White Neufchatel...... 98.10 Brian Storm, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., American Past Process Easy Melt Cheese

Merrill, WI, Rondelé Sea Salt & Cracked Loaf...... 96.90 Savencia Cheese USA, Savencia Cheese Pepper Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 98.25 Global Foods International, Global USA, New Holland, PA, Smithfield Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Foods International, Schiller Park, IL, Neuchatel Cheese...... 97.70 INC., Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters Processed Gruyere...... 96.75 Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese Garden Herb Goat Cheese Spread...... 98.15 Rochester, Prairie Farms Cheese USA, New Holland, PA, Alouette Creme Lon Riedel, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Division, Rochester, MN, American Fraiche...... 97.70 WI, Rondelé Organic Garlic & Herbs Cheese...... 96.75 Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 98.10 Loaf Production Line, Bongards Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Gina Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Creameries, Norwood, MN, Processed Marie Fresh Russian Style Farmers New Holland, PA, Alouette Garlic & American Deli Loaf...... 96.30 Cheese...... 97.65 Herbs Soft Spreadable Cheese...... 97.95 Gilman Cheese Corporation, Gilman Savencia Cheese USA, Savencia Cheese Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Cheese Corporation, Gilman, WI, Smithfield USA, New Holland, PA, New Holland, PA, Alouette Caramel Organic Ultra Sharp...... 96.20 Cream Cheese...... 97.10 Apple Soft Spreadable Cheese...... 97.95 Team Loaf, Land O’ Lakes, Inc, Spencer,

Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Shawn Schult, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., WI, Sharp Ched‑American...... 95.90 Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Gina Merrill, WI, Rondelé Garlic & Herbs Research and Development, Ornua Marie Cream Cheese...... 96.20 Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 97.80 Ingredients, N.A., Hilbert, WI, PP Sharp Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Colored Cheddar Cheese Websterville, VT, Spreadable Goat New Holland, PA, Alouette Spread & Snack Research and Development, Ornua Cheese...... 95.95 Cucumber & Dill Ingredients N.A., Hilbert, WI, PP Aged Luana Team, Prairie Farms, Monona, IA, Tony Gessler, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, White Cheddar Cheese Acid Set Cream Cheese Spread...... 95.90 WI, Rondelé Organic Garden Vegetable Research and Development, Ornua Joe Moreda, Jr. & Team, Valley Ford Gourmet Spreadable Cheese Ingredients, N. A., Hilbert, WI, PP Italian Cheese & Creamery, Valley Ford, CA, Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, New American Cheese Farmers Cheese ‑ Garlic & Herb...... 95.85 Holland, PA, Alouette Spread & Snack Garlic & Herbs Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, New Holland, PA, Alouette Cucumber & Dill Soft Spreadable Cheese Joe Moreda, Jr. & Team, Valley Ford Cheese & Creamery, Valley Ford, CA, Farmers Cheese ‑ Garlic & Herb Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters Roasted Red Pepper & Garlic Goat Cheese Spread

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 37 Nick Streble, Wohlt Creamery, New Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk CLASS 73: FLAVORED PASTEURIZED London, WI, Jalapeno Pepper American...... 98.70 Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, PP MJ & Mosco, Cotto, Baker, Hinze, Yancey’s American Cheese w/Red Bell & Jalapeno PROCESS CHEESES Fancy, Corfu, NY, Pasteurized Process Peppers

Cheddar with Dill...... 98.65 Team Loaf, Land O’ Lakes, Inc, Spencer, WI, BEST OF CLASS Norwood Loaf, Bongards Creameries, White Extra Melt with Jalapenos Global Foods International, Global Foods Norwood, MN, Processed American Deli Global Foods International, Global Foods International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Loaf with Peppers...... 98.60 International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Processed Gouda...... 99.35 Old Croc Cheese, Trugman‑Nash & Gilman Processed Swiss Bar SECOND AWARD Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Croc Justin Finnegan, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, Richard Oleskey, Biery Cheese Co., Horseradish Pasteurized Process Cheddar OH, Smoked American Cheese Louisville, OH, Buffalo American Cheese...... 99.15 Radley, Fox, Tamulski, Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, Gilman Cheese Corporation, Gilman THIRD AWARD NY, Pasteurized Process Hatch Chili Cheddar Cheese Corporation, Gilman, WI, Organic Tim Parker, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, Del Priore, Mosco, Radley, Yancey’s Fancy, Horseradish OH, Mediterranean American Cheese...... 99.10 Corfu, NY, Apple Pie Cheddar Old Croc Cheese, Trugman‑Nash & Gilman Global Foods International, Global Foods Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Croc Bacon & Jalapeño Pasteurized Process Cheddar Michael Williams, Williams Cheese International, Schiller Park, IL, Processed Company, Linwood, MI, Smoked Swiss Hot Pepper Old Croc Cheese, Trugman‑ Nash & Gilman with Horseradish...... 98.85 Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Croc Roasted Garlic & Herb Pasteurized Process Wattles, Scroger, Engelhardt, Garcia, Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, Hot Pepper Past Cheddar Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, NY, Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Loaf Process Jalapeno Peppadew Cheddar...... 98.85 Global Foods International, Global Foods Old Croc Cheese, Trugman‑Nash & Gilman Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Croc Dan Wilson, Biery Cheese Co., International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Chipotle & Onion Pasteurized Process Cheddar Louisville, OH, Garlic Pepper American Processed Cheddar Bar Cheese...... 98.85 Global Foods International, Global Foods Winkowski, Tatarski, Stout, Hand, Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, NY, Pasteurized Process Gilman Cheese Corporation, Gilman International, Schiller Park, IL, Double Steakhouse Onion Cheddar Cheese Corporation, Gilman, WI, Smoked Processed Gouda Shelf Stable Bacon Jalapeno...... 98.75 Dan McVehil, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, Global Foods International, Global Foods OH, Hot Chipotle American Cheese International, Schiller Park, IL, Smoked Processed Gruyere Style

38 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Bacon & Jalapeno Pasteurized Process Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, CLASS 74: PASTEURIZED Cheddar Spread...... 97.80 Spreadable Idyll Pastures Tony Gessler, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, PROCESS CHEESE SLICES Merrill, WI, Président Creamy Brie Websterville, VT, Crumble Goat Cheese

Spreadable Cheese...... 97.20 Classic BEST OF CLASS Rochester, Prairie Farms Cheese Savencia Cheese USA, Savencia Cheese Process Slice Team, Associated Milk Division, Rochester, MN, Cheese USA, New Holland, PA, Chavrie Goat Cheese Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, American Past Spread...... 97.05 Proc Cheese Slices...... 99.40 Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Chevre, Team Loaf, Land O’ Lakes, Inc, Spencer, Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel Chef’s Chevre SECOND AWARD WI, Golden Velvet Spread...... 96.95 Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Slice Production Line, Bongards Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Fromage Blanc Creameries, Norwood, MN, Processed

American with Peppers Slice on Slice...... 99.35 Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, CLASS 76: SOFT GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Inc., Modesto, CA, Caprino THIRD AWARD Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Old Croc, Trugman‑Nash, LLC, Chatham, BEST OF CLASS Pastures‑Soft,slightly tangy goat cheese NY, Old Croc Bacon & Jalapeno Pastuerized Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., ...... Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Process Slices 99.25 Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Rondin...... 99.30 Straight Up SECOND AWARD Norwood Slice Line, Bongards Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Creameries, Norwood, MN, Processed Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Original CLASS 77: FLAVORED SOFT American Swiss Slice on Slice...... 99.05 Goat Cheese Log...... 99.20 GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Old Croc, Trugman‑Nash, LLC, THIRD AWARD Chatham, NY, Old Croc Chipotle & Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, BEST OF CLASS Onion Pasteurize Process Cheddar Slices...... 98.55 Websterville, VT, Fresh Crottin...... 99.15 Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Team Slice, Land O’ Lakes, Inc, Spencer, Idyll Pastures w/Garlic & Herbs‑flavored...... 99.70 WI, Yellow American Slices...... 98.40 Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, Process Slice Team, Associated Milk SECOND AWARD CA, Ms. Natural...... 99.10 Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, American Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Idyll Pastures w/Garlic & Herbs‑flavored...... 99.65 Swiss Past Proc Cheese Slices...... 98.10 Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Bella Team Slice, Land O’ Lakes, Inc, Spencer, THIRD AWARD Capra Chevre...... 99.05 WI, Yellow American Slices...... 97.95 Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, Lancaster, Saputo Cheese USA, Old Croc, Trugman‑Nash, LLC, MI, Spreadable Idyll Pastures‑Garlic Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Original Chatham, NY, Old Croc Roasted Garlic &Herbs‑flavored...... 99.40 Goat Cheese Log...... 99.05 & Herb Pastuerized Process Slices...... 97.40 Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Chevre, Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures w/fennel Pollen‑Flavored...... 99.35 CLASS 75: PASTEURIZED Spreadable Goat Cheese 7oz...... 98.95 Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, PROCESS CHEESE SPREAD Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MI, Spreadable Idyll Pastures‑Garlic &Herbs‑flavored...... 99.35 MN, Plain Chevre...... 98.90 BEST OF CLASS John Windemuller, Country Winds Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, Courtney Schreiner, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., CA, Purple Haze...... 99.25 Creamery, Zeeland, MI, Fresh Chevre...... 98.75 Merrill, WI, Président Wee Brie Process Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Cheese Spread...... 98.70 Risin’ Creek Creamery, Risin’ Creek Creamery, Martinsville, IN, Plain Idyll Pastures w/fennel Pollen‑Flavored...... 99.20 SECOND AWARD Chevre...... 98.70 Risin’ Creek Creamery, Risin’ Creek Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Creamery, Martinsville, IN, Roasted ...... New Holland, PA, Alouette Creme de Brie 98.65 Garlic & Herb...... 99.10 Idyll Pastures...... 98.70 THIRD AWARD Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, Alouette Cheese, Savencia Cheese USA, Family Creamery, Malone, WI, CA, Danger Zone...... 99.05 New Holland, PA, Alouette Creme de Brie Natural Fresh Goat Cheese...... 98.70 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Truffle...... 98.50 Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Websterville, VT, Fresh Goat Cheese Fresh Goat Cheese Herb...... 99.05 Old Croc, Trugman‑Nash & Gilman Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Chevre, Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Fromage Blanc Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel Croc Roasted Garlic & Herb Pasteurized Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Process Cheddar Spread...... 98.35 Spreadable Idyll Pastures Websterville, VT, Smoky Pepper Jelly Chevre Old Croc, Trugman‑Nash & Gilman Cheese Corp, Chatham, NY, Old Croc

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 39 Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Herb and Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Cranberry Garlic Fresh goat Milk cheese CLASS 78: FLAVORED SOFT GOAT’S MILK Cinnamon Fresh Goat Milk Cheese Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, CHEESES WITH SWEET CONDIMENTS Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, HIRAM, OH, Sweet Fire Chevre Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, BEST OF CLASS Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Rolled Blueberry Chevre Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Hiram, OH, Cognac Fig Chevre...... 99.75 Garlic & Herb Chevre Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., SECOND AWARD Cranberry Cinnamon Chevre Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Garlic & Herb Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Crottin Milwaukee, WI, Pasilla & Honey Goat Websterville, VT, Crumbled Goat Cheese Cheese Log...... 99.65 Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Apricot & Thyme Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Truffle Goat THIRD AWARD Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Cheese Log Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Fresh Goat Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Idyll Pastures w/Honey and Lavender...... 99.60 cheese with Blueberry and Vanilla Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Garlic & Herb Risin’ Creek Creamery, Risin’ Creek Rondin Creamery, Martinsville, IN, Strawberry Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, Cream Team Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., HIRAM, OH, Apricot Ginger Chevre...... 99.55 Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Tomato Basil Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Goat Log Sweet Dreams Idyll Pastures w/Honey and Lavender...... 99.50 Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Chevre, Lancaster, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel Sun Dried Tomato WI, Montchevre™ Blueberry Vanilla Goat Websterville, VT, Wild Blueberry, & Basil Cheese Lemon and Thyme Chevre...... 99.35 Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Lemon Goat Spreadable Idyll Pastures w/Honey & Fiesta Chevre Cheese Log Lavender...... 99.20 Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, Chavrie, Savencia Cheese USA, New Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare HIRAM, OH, You Say Tomato Chevre Holland, PA, Chavrie Goat Log with Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Honey Cranberries and Orange Peel Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, in Fresh Goat Milk cheese...... 99.00 Little Red Corvette Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Honey CLASS 79: SURFACE (MOLD) Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Goat Cheese Log...... 99.00 Tomato Basil Chevre Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, RIPENED GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Spreadable Idyll Pastures w/Honey & BEST OF CLASS Sgt. Pepper Lavender...... 98.95 Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, VT, Bijou...... 99.35 Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Websterville, VT, Clover Blossom Honey

Peppercorn Chevre Chevre...... 98.95 SECOND AWARD Chavrie, Savencia Cheese USA, New Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Holland, PA, Chavrie Goat Log with Sundried Websterville, VT, Crumbled Goat Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Cabrie...... 99.30 Tomato & Garlic Cheese Cranberry & Tarragon...... 98.95 THIRD AWARD Lancaster, Saputo Cheese USA, Milwaukee, Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery,

WI, Montchevre™ Fine Herb Goat Cheese Log Websterville, VT, Fresh Goat Cheese Websterville, VT, Coupole...... 99.25 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Cranberry Orange & Cinnamon Websterville, VT, Everything Chevre Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Cranberry Mont Idyll...... 99.20 Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Fresh Goat Cinnamon Goat Cheese Log Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, Cheese with Everything Bagel blend Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, NY, Rawstruck...... 99.00 Fresh Goat Cheese with Sweet Fig Jam Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Valle, WI, Snow White Goat Cheddar...... 98.95 Rolled Cranberry Chevre Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Stickney Hill Dairy Production Team, Chevre, Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel Stickney Hill Dairy, Inc., Rockville, MN, Goat Brie...... 98.70 Honey Chevre Team Lancaster, Saputo Cheese USA Team Laura Chenel, Laura Chenel Chevre, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel ‑ with sweet figs Tricycle...... 98.65

40 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Central Coast, Central Coast Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Goat CLASS 82: HARD GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Bucheron™...... 98.60 Gouda...... 98.65

Lancaster, Saputo Cheese USA, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr BEST OF CLASS Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Kiss My Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Team Central Coast, Central Coast Ash™...... 98.55 Valle, WI, Chèvre au Lait...... 98.65 Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Goat Cheddar...... 99.75 Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Bermuda Triangle Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La SECOND AWARD jackie chang, haystack mountain Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Valle, WI, Cardona...... 98.40 creamery, Longmont, CO, Gold Hill...... 99.70 Humboldt Fog Mini Todd Jaskolski, Caprine Supreme, Black John Windemuller, Country Winds Creek, WI, Feta...... 98.25 THIRD AWARD Creamery, Zeeland, MI, Valency Risin’ Creek Creamery, Risin’ Creek Pam Hodgson, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Limited Edition Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Creamery, Martinsville, IN, Gateway...... 98.20 Extra‑Aged Goat...... 99.45 Hudson Valley Truffle Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr jackie chang, haystack mountain creamery, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Longmont, CO, Goat Camembert Valle, WI, Baraboo Blue...... 98.15 Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Capra Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Bianca Aged Goat Cheddar...... 99.25 Humboldt Fog Grande Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Goat Milk Feta‑ fresh mild balanced flavor Charuth Van Beuzekom, Shadow Brook Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Farm’s Dutch Girl Creamery, Lincoln, Triple Cream Goat Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, NE, Rosa Maria‑Batch...... 99.10 John Windemuller, Country Winds Billy Blue Revittle, Revittle, Harrisburg, PA, Kids’ Creamery, Zeeland, MI, Crottin Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Delight...... 98.95 Wegmans Food Markets & Vermont Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Chevre in Blue Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, Creamery, Wegmans Food Markets, West Pawlet, VT, Danby...... 98.90 Rochester, NY, 1916 Todd Jaskolski, Caprine Supreme, Black Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll CLASS 81: FLAVORED SEMI‑SOFT Creek, WI, Kayden...... 98.90 Gris‑soft ripened,ash dusted goat cheese GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Todd Jaskolski, Caprine Supreme, Black Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Creek, WI, Kayden...... 98.90 Websterville, VT, Bonne Bouche BEST OF CLASS Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Goat Gris‑soft ripened,ash dusted goat cheese Truffle Tremor...... 99.20 Milk Cheddar...... 98.85 Charuth Van Beuzekom, Dutch Girl SECOND AWARD Global Foods International, Global Foods Creamery, Lincoln, NE, Natalie in Gray Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr International, Schiller Park, IL, Naturally Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Mont Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Oven‑Smoked Goat Cheddar Cheese Idyll Sweet Vanilla Cardona...... 98.95 Team LaClare Family Creamery, LaClare Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr THIRD AWARD Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Evalon Aged Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Dutch style goat cheese Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Cave Aged Cardona Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Leslie Goff, Consider Bardwell Farm, West

Black Goat Truffle...... 98.75 Pawlet, VT, Manchester Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, CLASS 80: SEMI‑SOFT Temptation GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La

Valle, WI, Cocoa Cardona...... 98.70 BEST OF CLASS CLASS 83: SOFT SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES jackie chang, Haystack Mountain Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Bella creamery, Longmont, CO, Red Cloud...... 99.30 BEST OF CLASS Capra Smoked Goat Cheese...... 98.50 SECOND AWARD Green Dirt Farm, Green Dirt Farm, Global Foods International, Global John Windemuller, Country Winds Weston, MO, Fresh Plain...... 99.80 Foods International, Schiller Park, IL, Creamery, Zeeland, MI, Goat Milk Gouda...... 99.10 Naturally Oven‑Smoked Goat Mozzarella SECOND AWARD THIRD AWARD Cheese...... 97.90 Chris Osborne, Blackberry Farm, Walland, Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr TN, Fresh Brebis...... 99.60 Mineral Point, WI, Barneveld Blue...... 99.05 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La THIRD AWARD Valle, WI, Smoked Billy Blue...... 97.75 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Belmont, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., Westby, WI, Driftless natural...... 98.75 Milwaukee, WI, Montchevre™ Goat

Milk Feta...... 98.80

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 41 Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Creamery, Belleville, WI, Natural Creamery, Westby, WI, Driftless‑ Creamery Provisions, Belleville, WI,

Brebis...... 98.65 Sundried Tomato garlic...... 98.10 Pecora Nocciola...... 97.50 Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Rachael Gwassa, Veldhuizen Cheese, Dublin, Creamery, Belleville, WI, Landmark TX, Wooly Texas CLASS 84: SEMI‑SOFT/ SEMI‑HARD Creamery Brebis ‑ Everything Bagel...... 98.00 Phlox Farms Cheese of WI, Eckerman Sheep SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Company, Antigo, WI, Lovely Lamb Creamery, Westby, WI, Driftless‑ Maple...... 97.55 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, BEST OF CLASS Westby, WI, Timber Coulee Reserve Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Creamery Provisions, Belleville, WI, CLASS 86: SURFACE (MOLD) Westby, WI, Wischago Anabasque...... 98.20 RIPENED SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, SECOND AWARD Westby, WI, Timber Coulee Grande Reserve Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., BEST OF CLASS Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Mineral Point, WI, Little Boy Blue...... 98.10 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Westby, WI, Wischago Reserve Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, THIRD AWARD Revittle, Revittle, Harrisburg, PA, Shepherd’s Cave Aged Marisa...... 99.25 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Delight Westby, WI, Farmstead Feta Reserve...... 97.15 SECOND AWARD Phlox Farms Cheese of WI, Eckerman Sheep Nettle Meadow Team, Nettle Meadow Company, Antigo, WI, EweMazing Cheese Company, Warrensburg, NY, Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Chris Osborne, Blackberry Farm, Walland, Simply Sheep...... 99.20 Creamery, Westby, WI, Farmstead Feta...... 97.10 TN, Singing Brook THIRD AWARD Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Green Dirt Farm, Green Dirt Farm, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Westby, WI, Ocooch Grande Weston, MO, Dirt Lover...... 98.00 Valle, WI, Marisa...... 96.70 Rachael Gwassa, Veldhuizen Cheese, Dublin, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr TX, Fat Tailed Tomme Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Chris Osborne, Blackberry Farm, Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Valle, WI, Ba Ba Blue...... 95.90 Walland, TN, Hawkins Haze...... 97.65 Westby, WI, Timber Coulee Grande Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Rachael Gwassa, Veldhuizen Cheese, Dublin, Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La TX, Sheep Milk Gouda Valle, WI, Big Mutton Button...... 95.90 CLASS 87: HARD SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, WI, Ocooch Reserve BEST OF CLASS CLASS 85: FLAVORED SOFT & Team Central Coast, Central Coast Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, WI, Timber Coulee SEMI‑SOFT SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Ewereka...... 98.90 SECOND AWARD BEST OF CLASS GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village CLASS 88: SOFT & SEMI‑SOFT Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Bear Hill...... 98.50 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, MIXED MILK CHEESES THIRD AWARD Smoked Marisa...... 99.30 Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove BEST OF CLASS SECOND AWARD Cheese, Plain, WI, Donatello...... 98.45 Team Central Coast, Central Coast Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc, Carr Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Seascape...... 99.50 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Avery Jones/Reggie Jones, Shooting Star Porto Duet...... 99.25 SECOND AWARD Aries...... Creamery, Templeton, CA, 98.35 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr THIRD AWARD Phlox Farms Cheese of WI, Eckerman Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Sheep Company, Antigo, WI, 2018 Caso Bolo Mellage...... 99.35 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, American Sheep Cheese...... 98.35 Black Sheep Truffle...... 99.05 THIRD AWARD Green Dirt Farm, Green Dirt Farm, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Foods, Weston, MO, Prairie Tomme...... 98.00 Inc., Modesto, CA, Margherita...... 99.10 Hudson Flower, Murray’s Cheese & Old Phlox Farms Cheese of WI, Eckerman Chatham Creamery, Long Island Sheep Company, Antigo, WI, City, NY, Hudson Flower...... 98.40 Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., EweMazing...... 97.70 East Haven, CT, Ricotta di Buffala...... 98.95 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, WI, Driftless‑ Creamery, Westby, WI, Ocooch Grande Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Cranberry Cinnamon...... 98.25 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Reserve...... 97.65 Valle, WI, Menage...... 98.55 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, WI, Driftless ‑ Creamery, Westby, WI, Ocooch...... 97.50 Basil/Olive Oil...... 98.15

42 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La CLASS 90: HARD MIXED MILK CHEESES CLASS 91: FLAVORED SOFT & Valle, WI, Mobay...... 98.55 SEMI‑SOFT MIXED MILK CHEESES Mark Ruttner, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., BEST OF CLASS Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Crumbly Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, BEST OF CLASS Gorgonzola with Sheep’s Milk...... 98.35 Coatesville, PA, The Creamery Collection Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Batch #17...... 99.30 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Inc., Mineral Point, WI, EWE CALF to SECOND AWARD Gran Canaria...... 99.15 be KIDding Blue...... 97.65 Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr SECOND AWARD Cheese, Plain, WI, Montague...... 98.45 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr

Valle, WI, Shepherd’s Blend...... 97.45 THIRD AWARD Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Airco...... 99.10 Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Rizo Lopez Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Limited Edition Foods, Inc., Modesto, CA, Primosale...... 96.65 THIRD AWARD Pastorale Blend...... 98.35 Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI,

Canaria...... 99.05 CLASS 89: SURFACE (MOLD) CFC‑ Consider Bardwell Farm, Crown RIPENED MIXED MILK CHEESES Finish Caves, Brooklyn, NY, Goatlet Reserve...... 98.30 Team Nettle Meadow, Lumazu LLC dba BEST OF CLASS Anne Doe, Boston Post Dairy, LLC, Nettle Meadow, Warrensburg, NY, Fig Nettle Meadow Team, Nettle Meadow Enosburg Falls, VT, Gisele...... 98.30 & Honey Fromage Frais...... 98.70 Cheese Company, Warrensburg, NY, Sappy GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Camembiber, Murray’s Cheese & Old

Ewe...... 99.45 Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Shepsog...... 98.15 Chatham Creamery, Long Island SECOND AWARD Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs City, NY, Camembiber...... 98.35 Nettle Meadow Team, Nettle Meadow Creamery, Westby, WI, Meadow Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr

Cheese Company, Warrensburg, NY, Kunik...... 99.40 Melody...... 97.90 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Benedictine...... 98.20 THIRD AWARD Team Doe Run, The Farm at Doe Run, Coatesville, PA, The Creamery Collection Nettle Meadow Team, Nettle Meadow Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Batch #13...... 97.60 Cheese Company, Warrensburg, NY, Websterville, VT, Cremont...... 99.20 David Rogers and Team LaClare, LaClare Amber Kunik...... 97.80 Family Creamery, Malone, WI, Cave

Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Aged Chandoka NZ Chedd Style Mixed...... 97.55 Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Green Dirt Farm, Green Dirt Farm, CLASS 92: BUTTER Valle, WI, Cave Aged Mellage...... 99.15 Weston, MO, Aux Arcs...... 97.15 Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, BEST OF CLASS Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Idyllweiss...... 99.10 Team 1st shift, Foremost Farms USA, Westby, WI, Meadow Melody Reserve Nettle Meadow, Nettle Meadow Cheese Reedsburg, WI, Salted Butter...... 99.70 Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Company, Warrensburg, NY, Briar Cashton, WI, Cow/Goat Sharp Cheddar SECOND AWARD Summit...... 99.10 Team West Springfield, Cabot Creamery Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, NY, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, Salted Aged Buffalo Cheese Idyllweiss...... 99.05 Butter...... 99.65 Team Nasonville North, Nasonville Dairy, Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Marshland Mixed Milk THIRD AWARD NY, Washed Rind Cheese...... 98.85 Cheddar Team 2nd Shift, Foremost Farms USA, Wegmans Food Markets & Old Reedsburg, WI, Salted Butter...... 99.35 Chatham, Wegmans Food Markets,

Rochester, NY, Professor’s Brie...... 98.60 Team West Springfield, Cabot Creamery Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, NY, Buffalo Brie...... 98.55 Salted Butter...... 99.20 Green Dirt Farm, Green Dirt Farm, Weston, Team 3rd Shift, Foremost Farms USA, MO, Ruby Reedsburg, WI, Salted Butter...... 99.05 Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, NY, Debbie, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, Buffalo & Cow MO, Butter...... 99.00 California Dairies, Inc., California

Dairies, Inc., Visalia, CA, Salted Butter...... 98.80 Team 1, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc,

Batavia, NY, Salted Butter...... 98.80

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 43 Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/ Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic CLASS 93: UNSALTED BUTTER Unsalted Butter Salted Butter...... 98.75 Butter Dept, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC, Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, BEST OF CLASS Coopersville, MI, Lactic Acid Unsalted WI, Whipped Butter...... 98.75 Team West Springfield, Cabot Creamery California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Team 2, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, Inc., Visalia, CA, Unsalted Butter Batavia, NY, Salted Butter Unsalted Butter...... 99.05 Butter Dept, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC, Team McMinnville, CROPP Cooperative/ SECOND AWARD Coopersville, MI, Unsalted Butter Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Salted Team West Springfield, Cabot Creamery Butter Department, Continental Dairy Butter Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, Facilities, LLC, Coopersville, MI, Unsalted

Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Unsalted Butter...... 98.80 WONF Salted Butter THIRD AWARD California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Inc., Visalia, CA, European Style Unsalted Super Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Salted Butter Premium Butter Cheese Company, Willows, CA, Sweet

Team #1, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, AMPI Quarters Cream Butter...... 98.60 Jordan Bare, Grassland Dairy, Greewood, WI, Grassland Salted Butter CLASS 94: FLAVORED BUTTER Team 3, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Group 1, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC, Batavia, NY, Unsalted Butter...... 98.50 BEST OF CLASS Coopersville, MI, Salted Butter Team 4, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Pine River Dairy, Pine River Dairy, Team Graf, Graf Creamery Inc., Bonduel, WI, Batavia, NY, Unsalted Butter...... 98.50 Manitowoc, WI, Sea Salt Caramel Flavored Salted Butter Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy Butter...... 99.65 California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Products, Canyon, TX, Unsalted Butter...... 98.35 SECOND AWARD Inc., Visalia, CA, CDI Salted Whipped Butter Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Group 2, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC, Websterville, VT, Unsalted Cultured Butter98.05. Websterville, VT, Cultured Butter with Sea Coopersville, MI, Salted Butter Team McMinnville, CROPP Cooperative/ Salt & Maple...... 99.60 Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic THIRD AWARD Websterville, VT, Sea Salt Cultured Butter Cultured Butter...... 98.05 Pine River Dairy, Pine River Dairy,

Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/ Manitowoc, WI, Lemon & Dill Flavored Butter99.40. Company, WILLOWS, CA, Organic Salted Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic

Butter European Style (Cultured) Butter...... 98.05 Debbie, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy MO, Butter...... 99.30 Websterville, VT, Cultured Butter Lightly Salted Products, Canyon, TX, Unsalted Butter...... 98.00 Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Jordan Bare, Grassland Dairy, Greenwood, WI, Garlic and Basil Butter...... 98.95 Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Pasture (Salted & WI, Grassland Unsalted Butter...... 98.00 Cultured) Butter Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, WI, WI, Honey Butter...... 98.85 Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Cultured Butter Bantam, CT, Cultured Butter with Sea Salt Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, Team #2, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, AMPI Solids WI, Cinnamon and Sugar Butter...... 98.75 Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy Products, Websterville, VT, Cultured Butter with Sea Salt Team #3, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, Bourbon Canyon, TX, Unsalted Butter Crystals Butter...... 98.45 Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Organic Vat Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Cow Inc., Visalia, CA, Spreadable Butter with Cultured European Style Unsalted Butter Butter Canola Oil...... 97.35 Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Debbie, Shatto Milk Company, OSBORN, Websterville, VT, Cultured Butter Unsalted Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Goat MO, Butter...... 95.35 Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy Products, Butter Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, Westby, WI, Canyon, TX, Unsalted Butter Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Black Truffle Butter Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Menage Team Graf, Graf Creamery Inc., Bonduel, WI, Butter Unsalted Butter Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese Company, willows, CA, Organic Unsalted Butter Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Unsalted Butter Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Cultured Butter

44 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Schrieber, CROOP Cooperative/ Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, CLASS 95: LOWFAT YOGURT ‑ COW’S MILK Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Vanilla Fig Whole Milk Grassmilk Plain Yogurt...... 94.90 Yogurt

BEST OF CLASS Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate Niagara Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Strawberry West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Whole Milk Probiotic Yogurt ‑ Plain...... 94.70 Kids Yogurt Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY,

Lowfat Orange Creme Yogurt...... 97.75 North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate Niagara El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk CA, Yogurt Stirred Mango SECOND AWARD Blended Yogurt El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, CA, Yogurt Stirred Guava Karoun’s Low Fat Yogurt...... 97.55 Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Triple Cream Plain El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, THIRD AWARD Yogurt CA, Yogurt Stirred Strawberry Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Cultured Team, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Monroe, WI, Odyssey Lowfat 1% Vanilla Plain non‑Fat Yogurt Organic, 100% Grass‑ Fed Strawberry Whole Yogurt...... 97.50 Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Milk Yogurt Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Graziers Non Team Schrieber, CROPP Cooperative/Organic North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate Homogenized Plain Yogurt Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Grassmilk Vanilla Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Team St. Benoit Creamery, St. Benoit Yogurt Lowfat Cherry Yogurt...... 97.25 Creamery, Sonoma, CA, 8% butterfat Penn Dairy, Penn Dairy, Winfield, PA, Maple ‑ West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate pasture‑raised Jersey milk yogurt Cream on Top Yogurt Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY,

Vanilla Parfait...... 96.90 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate CLASS 97: YOGURT, FLAVORED CLASS 98: HIGH PROTEIN Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, ‑ COW’S MILK YOGURT‑ COW’S MILK Lowfat Banana Vanilla Yogurt...... 96.75

Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Indian Style Low Fat Yogurt...... 96.35 Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate WA, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Lemon Whole Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 5% Milk Yogurt...... 98.00 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Greek Yogurt...... 98.00 Lowfat Key Lime Yogurt...... 96.00 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Matt Martin, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt 2%...... 97.20 CLASS 96: YOGURT‑ COW’S MILK Lowfat FOB Raspberry Yogurt...... 97.45 THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS Eric Weidman, siggi’s dairy, New York, NY, Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, 4% Fat Skyr...... 96.90 Karoun’s Honey Coconut Greek yogurt...... 97.30 Arz Middle Eastern style Whole Milk Yogurt..... 97.00

SECOND AWARD Eric Weidman, siggi’s dairy, New York, El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate NY, Triple Cream (9% fat) Skyr...... 96.85 Hanford, CA, Yogurt Stirred Pina Colada...... 97.25 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, Whole Milk Cupset Yogurt...... 96.30 Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Petaluma, CA, Organic whole milk THIRD AWARD Whole Milk Greek Yogurt ‑ Plain...... 96.60 blackberry yogurt...... 96.65 Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Petaluma, CA, Plain Organic Cow Milk Yogurt96.25. Dairy, Bantam, CT, Whole Milk Yogurt...... 96.55 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Lowfat FOB Blueberry Yogurt...... 96.20 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt...... 96.45 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, WA, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Mango Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra ...... Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Sierra Lowfat Cupset Yogurt 96.05 Whole Milk Yogurt...... 96.10 Nevada Heroes Greek Yogurt...... 95.80 Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, ...... Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., IL, Whole Milk Yogurt Plain 96.00 Honey Yogurt...... 95.80 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt 0%...... 95.70 Karoun, Karoun Dairies LLC, Turlock, CA, Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Karoun’s Whole Milk Yogurt...... 95.60 Hawkeye, IA, Cream Top Strawberry 1% Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Narragansett Creamery, Narragansset Yogurt...... 95.75 Organic 3.3% Greek Yogurt...... 95.25 Creamery, Providence, RI, Whole Milk Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Plain Yogurt...... 95.00 Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Whole Milk Probiotic Yogurt ‑ Vanilla...... 95.70 Nonfat Greek Yogurt Hawkeye, IA, Cream Top Plain 1% Yogurt..... 94.90

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 45 Cultured Team, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury,

Plain Greek Yogurt IA, Cream Top Aronia Blackberry 1% Greek NY, Plain Buffalo Yogurt...... 95.70 Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Yogurt Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury,

Organic, 100% Grass‑fed Plain Whole Milk North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate Niagara NY, Buffalo Labneh...... 95.45 Yogurt Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Triple Berry Split Creek Farm, Split Creek Farm, LLC, Nonfat Greek Yogurt Westby Team, Westby Coop Creamery, Anderson, SC, Greek Style Goat Milk Yogurt94.50. Westby, WI, Non‑Fat Greek Yogurt West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Riverine Ranch, Riverine Ranch, Asbury, Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., NY, Raspberry Buffalo Yogurt...... 94.35 Lowfat Greek Chocolate Yogurt Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Old World Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, Petaluma, CA, Plain Sheep Milk Yogurt...... 94.00 IA, Cream Top Whole Milk Plain Greek Yogurt Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 5.3oz Nonfat Greek Strawberry Yogurt Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Sierra Cultured Team, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Nevada Cheese, Willows, CA, Capretta Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, Low Fat Plain Greek Yogurt Rich & Creamy Goat Yogurt...... 93.95 Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Whole Aroa’s Labneh, Aroa Craft Yogurt, Plantation, Milk Greek Yogurt ‑ Vanilla Bean FL, Labneh North Country Dairy Facility, Upstate Niagara CLASS 101: DRINKABLE Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Black Cherry CULTURED PRODUCTS CLASS 99: HIGH PROTEIN YOGURT, Nonfat Greek Yogurt Eric Weidman, siggi’s dairy, New York, NY, BEST OF CLASS FLAVORED ‑ COW’S MILK simple sides ‑ Vanilla & Cinnamon 4% fat Skyr Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, BEST OF CLASS Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Low Bantam, CT, Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Fat Protein Smoothie ‑ Peach...... 99.80 Arethusa Farm Dairy, Arethusa Farm Dairy, Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Vanilla...... 98.60 SECOND AWARD Bantam, CT, Whole Milk Maple Yogurt SECOND AWARD Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, Westby Team, Westby Coop Creamery, Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Low Westby, WI, Non‑Fat Vanilla Greek Yogurt Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt, Lowfat Fat Protein Smoothie ‑ Strawberry...... 99.65 Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, Vanilla...... 98.45 THIRD AWARD IA, Cream Top Vanilla 1% Greek Yogurt THIRD AWARD Team Weber’s, Weber’s Farm Store, Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, Matt Martin, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Marshfield, WI, Raspberry Kefir...... 99.60 IA, Cream Top Lemon Custard 1% Greek Yogurt WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Blueberry..... 98.30 Cultured Team, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Stonyfield Organic, Stonyfield Organic, Low Fat Vanilla Bean Greek Yogurt Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Londonderry, NY, Stonyfield Organic Low Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Fat Protein Smoothie ‑ Wild Berry...... 99.50 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Peach Lowfat Pomegranate Acai...... 98.25 Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Cultured Team, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, IL, Whole Milk Kefir Plain...... 99.45 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 100 VT, Low Fat Strawberry Greek Yogurt...... 98.10 Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Cal Nonfat Greek Strawberry Yogurt Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, Drinkable Mango & Peach Goat’s Milk Yogurt99.35. WA, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Vanilla Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Whole Milk Yogurt...... 97.90 CLASS 100: YOGURT ‑ ALL OTHER MILKS Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NY, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Passion Fruit...... 99.30 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, BEST OF CLASS Team Weber’s, Weber’s Farm Store, Mixed Berry Pomegranate Lowfat Greek Team St. Benoit, St. Benoit Creamery, Marshfield, WI, Strawberry Kefir...... 99.30 Yogurt...... 97.75 Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel ‑ Yogurt with Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese

Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, vanilla...... 97.25 Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NY,

WA, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Peach Raspberry Pomegranate...... 99.25 SECOND AWARD Whole Milk Yogurt...... 97.75 Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Matt Martin, Klondike Cheese Co., Plain Yo‑Goat...... 99.20 Plain Grade A Goat’s Milk Yogurt...... 96.75 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, THIRD AWARD Raspberry...... 97.55 Drinkable Vanilla Goat’s Milk Yogurt Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Weber’s, Weber’s Farm Store, Petaluma, CA, Blackberry Sheep Milk Yogurt... 96.50 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Marshfield, WI, Plain Kefir Blueberry...... 97.25 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Team St. Benoit Creamery, St. Benoit CA, Yogurt Strawberry WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Peach Creamery, Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Yogurt...... 96.00 Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, CA, Yogurt Pina Colada WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Pomegranate Acai

46 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Karoun, Karoun Dairies Inc., San Fernando, Tom Dahmen, V&V Supremo Foods/ CA, Karoun’s Kefir Drink whole milk Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, CLASS 103: OPEN CLASS El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Chihuahua Cheese Shred CA, Yogurt Mango Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Feather SHREDDED CHEESE BLENDS, Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Shredded Aged Cheddar FLAVORED & UNFLAVORED Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NY, Mango Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, BEST OF CLASS Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, NY, Cello Copper Kettle Cheese Chisels Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Vanilla Kefir Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, 3 Cheese Blend...... 99.15 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Inc., Plymouth, WI, Shredded Extra Sharp CA, Yogurt Guava Wisconsin Cheddar SECOND AWARD Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Blend Shredded Cheddar... 99.10 Industries, Inc., Perth Amboy, NY, WI, Sartori Reserve SarVecchio Parmesan ‑ Guanabana Shredded THIRD AWARD Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Feather Team Schuman Cheese, Schuman Cheese, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Strawberry Kefir Shredded Monterey Jack Fairfield, NY, Cello Shredded Italian Blend...... 98.95 Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Casey Berget, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Plain Kefir Jace Johnsrud, V&V Supremo Foods/ Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers Shred Pure Eire Dairy, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Chula Vista Cheese Co., Browntown, Organic, 100% Grass‑Fed Peach Kefir Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Chihuahua/Oaxaca Blend...... 98.80 WI, Sartori Reserve Merlot BellaVitano Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Nampa Shred Team, Lactalis American Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Gourmet Groupe, Nampa, ID, Galbani WMLM CLASS 102: OPEN CLASS SHREDDED Cheddar Blend...... 98.75 Mozzarella Shred Cheese CHEESE, FLAVORED & UNFLAVORED Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., ID, 80/20 Low Moisture Whole Milk Green Bay, WI, Della Terra Feather Shredded BEST OF CLASS Mozzarella/Muenster Feather Shred Blend...... 98.65 Mozzarella Cheese Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, Shredded Colby Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Feather ID, 50/50 Low Moisture Whole Milk Shredded Low Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella Jack...... 99.35 Mozzarella & Sharp White Cheddar Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Feather Blend...... 98.65 SECOND AWARD Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Black Pepper South Production, Great Lakes Dan Reed, V&V Supremo Foods/Chula Vista BellaVitano Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Cheese Co., Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Colored Extra Sharp and White Extra Cheese Shred...... 99.30 Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, MD, Batch 10 Sharp Cheddar Shred Blend...... 98.40 THIRD AWARD Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, MD, Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, Shreds Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, 2 Cheese Blend98.25. Feather Shredded Sharp Cheddar...... 99.25 Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Green Bay, WI, Della Terra Shredded Asiago Farms USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Cheese Shredded Cheese Blend 5 lb...... 98.20 Fairfield, NY, Cello Shredded Copper Daniel Wavrin, Ferndale Farmstead, Ferndale, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Kettle Cheese...... 99.05 WA, Diced Pizza Cheese Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters Feather Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Shredded Cheddar & Monterey Jack Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Old World Cheddar... 99.05 NY, Cello Shaved Copper Kettle Cheese Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Inc, Plymouth, WI, 2 Cheese Blend with Spice Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, MD, Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, Shredded Swiss99.00. Batch 1 Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, 50/50 The Pretty Rigid, Great Lakes Cheddar & Monterey Jack Fancy Shred Blend El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, CA EM Quesadilla Rallado Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, INC., Fancy Parmesan Shred...... 98.45 Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters 50/50 Cheddar Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery & Monterey Jack Fancy Shredded Blend Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, Shredded Foremost Farms Appleton, Foremost Farms Parmesan...... 98.40 USA‑ Appleton, Appleton, WI, Shredded The Pretty Rigid, Great Lakes Cheese Blend Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Shred Samurai, Great Lakes Shaved Parmesan...... 98.40 Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Shredded Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Blend of Asiago, Aged Fontina, and Parmesan Plymouth, WI, Sartori Old World Cheddar Team 4, Agropur‑Jerome, Jerome, ID, 50/50 ‑ Shaved...... 98.40 Sharp Cheddar & Monterey Jack Feather Shred Blend

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 47 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, Artisan Wrap Tray‑ Applewood Smoked Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman CA EM Authentic Mexican Blend Prosciutto Cheese, Fairfield, NY, Cello Whisps ‑ Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Parmesan...... 98.60 Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Burrata with Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products, CLASS 104: PREPARED CHEESE FOODS Flavor Italian Meat Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Cheese Whips..... 98.60 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products,

BEST OF CLASS Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Burrata with kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Mini Whips...... 98.60 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Flavor Apple‑wood Smoked Bacon Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese of Fairfield, NY, Cello Whisps ‑ Parmesan Pre‑sliced Prosciutto & Fresh Basil Roll...... 99.55 Wisconsin, Darlington, WI, Brun‑uusto Baked Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products, SECOND AWARD Cheese kewaunee, WI, Fiesta Whips Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Cashton, WI, Guusto Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Pre‑sliced Capicola & Fresh Basil Roll...... 99.50 Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Cashton, Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Curds THIRD AWARD WI, Juustoleipa with Jalapeno Peppers Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Peter Gretzinger, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Farmstead Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Yellow Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa Italiano Cheddar Cheese Curds Prosciutto & Fresh Basil Roll...... 99.45 Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Team Schuman Cheese, Schuman Cheese, Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa with Garlic Fairfield, NY, Cello Tomato Basil Whisps Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Jalapeño Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Whips Formaggio’s Artisan Wrap Tray‑ Soppressata99.40. Bread Cheese Bill Sikorski, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Team Calabro, Calabro Cheese Corp., East Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fontina Snacking Cheese Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Haven, CT, Rotolini Gold Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Burrata with Flavor Truffle Oil & Basil...... 99.35 Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Wayne, WI, Cheese Curds Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr Valley Wayne, WI, Cheese Curds WI, Chipotle Bread Cheese...... 99.35 Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, WI, Bread Team Schuman Cheese, Schuman Cheese, Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese Fairfield, NY, Cello BBQ Bacon Whisps Cheese, Cashton, WI, Juusto with Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Chipolte Peppers...... 99.35 WI, Curds Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Cheese, CLASS 105: NATURAL SNACK CHEESE Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, Hurleyville, NY, Charcuterie Bites...... 99.30 NY, Cello Copper Kettle Cheese Chisels Carr Valley Cheese Company, Inc., Carr BEST OF CLASS Valley Cheese Company, Inc., La Valle, Ryan Healy, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Cashton, WI, Goat Milk Mild Cheddar Snack WI, Garlic Bread Cheese...... 99.30 Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Sticks Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Snacking Cheese...... 99.45 The Pretty Rigid, Great Lakes Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, SECOND AWARD Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Cheddar Pre‑sliced Chorizo & Cilantro Roll...... 99.25 Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Cubes Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, White Cheddar Cheese Curds...... 99.30 Company, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Betta Brie...... 99.25 THIRD AWARD Cheddar Cheese Curds Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Platteville, Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Just the Cheese, Specialty Cheese Co., Inc., WI, Roth Creamy Gouda Snack Cheese...... 99.00 Reeseville, WI, Just the Cheese Jalapeno Bars Burrata with Flavor 2‑Cheese...... 99.25 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Nathan Rihn, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Mini Whips Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Parmesan Artisan Wrap Tray‑ Prosciutto Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South Snacking Cheese...... 98.95 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Wayne, WI, Garlic Curds Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Dairy, Inc., Algoma, WI, Mozzarella Whips98.95. Artisan Wrap Tray‑ Pepperoni kewaunee, WI, Fiesta Whips Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Calkins Creamery, Calkins Creamery, Brodhead, WI, Curds...... 98.80 Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Honesdale, PA, Curds Artisan Wrap Tray‑ Genoa Team Emmi Roth, Emmi Roth, Platteville, Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese Inc, South WI, Roth Creamy Cheddar Snack Cheese...... 98.75 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Wayne, WI, Garlic Curds Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Renard’s Cheese, Renard’s Rosewood

Dairy, Inc., Algoma, WI, Cheese Curds...... 98.70

48 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Michael Butterbrodt, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Fairfield, NY, Cello Asiago and Pepper Jack Fairfield, NY, Bella Rosa Cracker cut sliced Merrill, WI, Président Pub Cheddar &

Whisps cheese...... 98.60 Sriracha Spreadable Cheese...... 98.95 Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Shawn Schult, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Curds Green Bay, WI, Della Terra No Smoke Merrill, WI, Président Pub Cheddar Bacon Team Schuman Cheese, Schuman Cheese, Provolone Sliced Cheese...... 98.40 Spreadable Cheese...... 98.75 Fairfield, NY, Cello BBQ Bacon Whisps Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Rising Sun Farms, Rising Sun Farms, Team Schuman Cheese, Schuman Cheese, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp PHOENIX, OR, Pesto Dried Tomato Cheese Fairfield, NY, Cello Tomato Basil Whisps Sliced Cheddar...... 98.35 Torta...... 98.55 Just the Cheese, Specialty Cheese Co., Inc., Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Key Ingredient, Key Ingredient Market, Reeseville, WI, Just the Cheese Aged Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Bath, PA, White Cheddar Jalapeno...... 98.55 Bars Yellow Sliced Cheddar...... 98.30 Courtney Schreiner, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., John Freyholtz, Ellsworth Cooperative Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Merrill, WI, Président Gourmet Pairings creamery, Ellsworth, WI, Hot Buffalo Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Sharp Sliced Cheddar Blue Cheese w/Caramelized Onion Soft Cheese Curds Overtime, Great Lakes Cheese‑Plymouth, Spreadable...... 98.55 Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Plymouth, WI, New York Extra Sharp Colored Michele Sawyer, Red Clay Gourmet, Winston Cashton, WI, Goat Milk Colby Jack Cheese Cracker Cuts Salem, NC, South Meets East Sriracha Pimiento Sticks Overtime, Great Lakes Cheese‑Plymouth, Cheese Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Plymouth, WI, New York Extra Sharp White Michele Sawyer, Red Clay Gourmet, Winston Fairfield, NY, Cello Asiago and Pepper Jack Cracker Cuts Salem, NC, Classic Sharp Cheddar Pimiento Whisps Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Cheese Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Extra Sharp Sliced Lyle Gast Jr., Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Fairfield, NY, Cello Cheddar Whisps Cheddar Président Pub Cheddar Horseradish Spreadable Cheese Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, INC., Fairfield, NY, Cello Cheddar Whisps Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters Sliced Sharp Wms Team Green, Williams Cheese Cheddar Cheese Company, Linwood, MI, Raspberry Pineapple Just the Cheese, Specialty Cheese Co., Inc., Gourmet Spreadable Cheese Reeseville, WI, Just the Cheese Wisconsin Slice Production Line, Bongards Creameries, Cheddar Minis Norwood, MN, Natural Swiss (No Eyes) Slice Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, Hatch on Slice Green Chile Cheddar Dip Just the Cheese, Specialty Cheese Co., Inc., Reeseville, WI, Just the Cheese White Cheddar Slice Production Line, Bongards Creameries, Key Ingredient, Key Ingredient Market, Bath, Minis Norwood, MN, Natural Provolone Slice on Slice PA, Hot Horseradish & Ale Spread Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Slice Production Line, Bongards Creameries, Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, kewaunee, WI, Farmstead Curds Norwood, MN, Natural Mozz. Slice on Slice Truffled Ricotta Dip Michael Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Linwood, MI, Pineapple Coconut Mango Tequila CLASS 106: NATURAL SLICED CHEESE CLASS 107: CHEESE BASED SPREADS Spreadable Cream Cheese Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Green Bay, WI, White Queso Cheese Sauce with Midnight Mayhem, Great Lakes Brian Storm, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Peppers & Spice WI, Président Gourmet Pairings Feta with Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Swiss Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, Red Roasted Red Pepper Spreadable Cheese...... 99.60 Cracker Cuts...... 99.65 Pepper Artichoke Cheddar Dip SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Sharp Shooters, Great Lakes Michele Sawyer, Red Clay Gourmet, Linwood, MI, Roasted Red Pepper and Onion Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Sharp Winston Salem, NC, Flame Roasted Jalapeno Gourmet Spreadable Pimiento Cheese...... 99.55 Cheddar Slices...... 99.20 Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Chute, WI, Owl’s Nest Cheddary Cheese Spread THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Michele Sawyer, Red Clay Gourmet, Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Winston Salem, NC, Hickory Smoked Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Sliced Colby Jack...... 99.15 Linwood, MI, Original Pimento Gourmet Cheddar Pimiento Cheese...... 99.50 Spreadable Cheese Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., MVP, Great Lakes Cheese‑Plymouth, Rising Sun Farms, Rising Sun Farms, Green Bay, WI, Alejandro White Queso Cheese Plymouth, WI, Provolone Slices...... 99.05 Sauce with Spice PHOENIX, OR, Gorgonzola Cheese Torta...... 99.30 Slice Samurai, Great Lakes Key Ingredient, Key Ingredient Market, Bath, Cheese‑Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Green Bay, WI, Alejandro White Queso PA, Champagne Cheddar Swiss Shingle Slices...... 99.05 Cheese Sauce...... 99.20 Tony Gessler, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Bailey, Delpriore, Yancey’s Fancy, Corfu, Président Gourmet Pairings Aged White Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Sliced Pepper Jack.98.80 w/Apple Chutney NY, Buffalo Wing Cheese Spread...... 99.00

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 49 Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Green Bay, WI, Cheese Crafters Swiss & Whey Powder Sweet CLASS 110: WHEY PROTEIN Gruyere Flavored Cheese Spread Team Foremost‑Plover, CROPP/Organic Valley, Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, White La Farge, WI, Organic Reduced Minerals Whey CONCENTRATE 80 Balsamic Fig Dip 90 BEST OF CLASS Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook CRT, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, NZMP Whey Spinach Artichoke Parmesan Dip Whey Powder Sweet Protein Concentrate 80...... 99.90 Steve Knapp, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Waupun, WI, Président Pub Sharp Cheddar Spreadable Cheese Sweet Whey Powder W Bleached SECOND AWARD Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Tulare, CA, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., CROPP/Organic Valley, CROPP/Organic Valley, WPC 80% Regular...... 99.60 Green Bay, WI, Della Terra Italian 3 Cheese La Farge, WI, Organic Sweet Whey Powder Spread Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Waupun, WI, THIRD AWARD Blue Moose, Blue Moose, Lafayette, CO, Sweet Whey Powder W Unbleached Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Tulare, CA, WPC 80% Instant...... 99.50 Roasted Onion Dip Plover, Foremost Farms USA, Plover, WI, Key Ingredient, Key Ingredient Market, Bath, Nutritek 500 Reduced Minerals Whey PA, Garlic Cheddar Spread Adam Monson, Foremost Farms USA, SWC Whey Team, Southwest Cheese, Winona Foods, Inc., Winona Foods, Inc., Richland Center, WI, TEKLAC‑Sweet Dairy Clovis, NY, Avonlac 282...... 99.35 Green Bay, WI, Havarti Garlic Cheese Spread Whey Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese Company, WILLOWS, CA,

Organic Whey Protein Concentrate 80%...... 99.30 CLASS 108: DRY WHEY CLASS 109: WHEY PROTEIN Whey Team, Cabot Creamery CONCENTRATE 34 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Whey BEST OF CLASS Protein Concentrate 80...... 99.20 Gary Sloan Jr., Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, BEST OF CLASS Andy Kaskie, Agropur, Hull, IA, IsoChill 801099.10. Middlefield, OH, Sweet Whey Powder...... 99.90 Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Waupun, WI, Whey Team, Cabot Creamery SECOND AWARD WPC 34 Unbleached...... 99.90 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Whey Dryer Team, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Dried SECOND AWARD Protein Concentrate 80...... 99.10 Whey Powder...... 99.85 Plover, Foremost Farms USA, Plover, WI, Luke Schwantes, Lynn Proteins, Granton, THIRD AWARD Daritek DMX Reduced Minerals Whey WI, WPC...... 99.05 Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Tulare, CA, Protein Concentrate...... 99.85 Glanbia Nutritionals, Glanbia Sweet Whey Powder C...... 99.80 THIRD AWARD Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Avonlac 282 WPC80...... 98.90 Foremost Farms USA ‑ Sparta, Foremost Farms USA, Sparta, WI, Whey Protein SWC Whey Team, Southwest Cheese, Clovis, Whey, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Concentrate 34...... 99.80 NY, Avonlac 282 Buffalo, NY, Sweet Whey Powder...... 99.75 Darin Wiegand, Agropur, Hull, IA, IsoChill 8000 Gary Sloan Jr., Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Middlefield, OH, Sweet Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Waupun, El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford,

Whey Powder...... 99.75 WI, WPC 34 Bleached...... 99.70 CA, WPC 80% Regular Protein Adam Monson, Foremost Farms USA, Plover, Foremost Farms USA, Plover, WI, Nampa Whey Plant Team, Lactalis American

Richland Center, WI, TEKLAC‑ Sweet Daritek Whey Protein Concentrate...... 99.65 Group, Nampa, ID, Whey Protein Concentrate 80% Dairy Whey...... 99.75 Tyler Rollins, Lynn Proteins, Granton, WI,

Whey Team, Cabot Creamery WPC...... 99.55 El Mexicano, Marquez Brothers Int., Hanford, CA, WPC 80% INST. PROTEIN Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Dry Whey... 99.70 Tyler Rollins, Lynn Proteins, Granton, WI,

Team Dryer, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Dried WPC...... 98.60 CRT, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, NZMP Whey Protein

Whey Powder...... 99.70 Concentrate 80 Ellsworth, Ellsworth Cooperative Luke Schwantes, Lynn Proteins, Granton, WI, Creamery, Ellsworth, WI, Spray Dried WPC Sweet Whey Powder...... 99.70 Team Wisconsin Specialty Protein, CROPP/ Team 2, Upstate Farms Cheese, Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic WPC 80 Campbell, NY, Sweet Grade A Dry Whey...... 99.65 Bongards Perham, Bongards, Perham, MN, Plover, Foremost Farms USA, Foremost Road, WPC 80 WI, Teklac Whey Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese Dan Daleiden, Ellsworth Cooperative Company, Willows, CA, Whey Protein Creamery, Ellsworth, WI, Dried Sweet Whey Concentrate 80% Team 1, Upstate Farms Cheese, Campbell, NY, Sweet Grade A Dry Whey

50 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Regan Schwantes, Lynn Proteins, CLASS 111: WHEY PROTEIN ISOLATE 90 Granton, WI, Whey Permeate...... 98.40 CLASS 115: MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE Regan Schwantes, Lynn Proteins, BEST OF CLASS Granton, WI, Whey Permeate...... 98.40 BEST OF CLASS Nampa Whey Plant Team, Lactalis Crystal Carbajal, Dairy Farmers of America,

American Group, Nampa, ID, Whey Protein Portales, NM, MPC...... 99.95

Isolate Powder 90%...... 99.95 CLASS 113: NON‑FAT DRY MILK SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD & SKIM MILK POWDER Idaho Milk Products, Idaho Milk Products,

SWC Whey Team, Southwest Cheese, Jerome, ID, MPC...... 99.90 BEST OF CLASS Clovis, NY, Provon 292...... 99.90 Group 1, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC, THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD Coopersville, MI, Non‑Fat Dry Milk...... 99.95 Crystal Carbajal, Dairy Farmers of America, Glanbia Nutritionals, Glanbia Nutritionals, Portales, NM, MPC...... 99.85 SECOND AWARD Twin Falls, ID, Provon 190 WPI...... 99.85 Group 2, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC,

Coopersville, MI, Non‑Fat Dry Milk...... 99.90 Grassland Dairy Products, Grassland Glanbia Nutritionals, Glanbia Dairy Products, Inc., Greenwood, WI, THIRD AWARD Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Provon 190 Milk Protein Concentrate 70%...... 99.60 Goshen Team, Dairy Farmers of America, WPI...... 99.80 Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Goshen, IN, NFDM LH...... 99.85 SWC Whey Team, Southwest Cheese, Cheese Company, WILLOWS, CA,

Clovis, NY, Provon 292 SFL...... 99.80 Organic MPC‑80%...... 99.50 Nampa Whey Plant team, Lactalis California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, American Group, Nampa, ID, Whey Inc., Visalia, CA, Grade A Low Heat Inc., Visalia, CA, Instant Milk Protein ...... Protein Isolate Pronativ 95...... 99.70 Nonfat Dry Milk 99.80 Concentrate 85%...... 99.40 Mullins Whey, Mullins Whey, Mosinee, Team West Springfield, Cabot Creamery Idaho Milk Products, Idaho Milk

WI, WPI...... 99.70 Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, Products, Jerome, ID, MPC...... 99.30 Non‑Fat Dry Milk...... 99.80 Glanbia Nutritionals, Glanbia California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Provon 290 Crystal Carbajal, Dairy Farmers of Inc., Visalia, CA, Milk Protein Concentrate ...... WPI...... 99.55 America, Portales, NM, 213219 99.80 85%...... 98.95 Bongards Perham, Bongards, Perham, AMPI Arlington, Associated Milk

MN, WPI 90...... 99.25 Producers Inc., Arlington, IA, formula202‑6200‑2...... 99.75 Mullins Whey, Mullins Whey, Mosinee, CLASS 116: MILK PROTEIN ISOLATE

WI, WPI...... 99.05 DFA Garden City, Dairy Famers of America, Garden City, KS, NFDM...... 99.75 BEST OF CLASS DFA Fallon, DFA Fallon, Fallon, NV, Idaho Milk Products, Idaho Milk Products, Jerome, ID, MPI...... 99.80 CLASS 112: WHEY PERMEATE 2127183451...... 99.75 Crystal Carbajal, Dairy Farmers of SECOND AWARD BEST OF CLASS America, Portales, NM, 213219...... 99.75 Grassland Dairy Products, Grassland Dairy Whey, Lactalis American Group, Inc., Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy Products, Inc., Greenwood, WI, Milk Protein ...... Buffalo, NY, Whey Permeate...... 99.85 Products, Canyon, TX, Non‑Fat Dry Milk.... 99.75 Isolate 99.60 SECOND AWARD Goshen Team 2, Dairy Farmers of America, THIRD AWARD Nampa Whey Plant Team, Lactalis Goshen, IN, NFDM California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, American Group, Nampa, ID, Whey AMPI‑Arlington, Associated Milk Producers Inc., Visalia, CA, Instant Milk Protein Isolate.... 99.25 Permeate Powder Lactowell...... 99.80 Inc., Arlington, IA, formula202‑6200

THIRD AWARD Fort Morgan Colorado Team, Dairy Farmers of Idaho Milk Products, Idaho Milk

Saputo, Saputo Cheese USA, Tulare, CA, America, Fort Morgan, CO, 2102183111 Products, Jerome, ID, MPI...... 99.20 Deproteinized Whey Powder...... 99.75 Team Lone Star, Lone Star Dairy Products, California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Canyon, TX, Non‑Fat Dry Milk Inc., Visalia, CA, Milk Protein Isolate 2% Andy Kaskie, Agropur, Hull, IA, Crino Lactose...... 99.15

Deproteinized Whey...... 99.70 Bongards Perham, Bongards, Perham,

MN, Whey Permeate...... 99.55 Darin Wiegand, Agropur, Hull, IA, Crino

Deproteinized Whey...... 99.50 Whey Team, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Whey

Permeate...... 99.50

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 51 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association wishes to recognize and CONTEST CHAIRMAN thank everyone that participated in making the 20th Biennial Brian Eggebrecht, United States Championship Cheese Contest a record-breaking Welcome Dairy, Colby,WI success. First, a sincere thank you to our judges: CONTEST COMMITTEE Brian Eggebrecht, Welcome Dairy CHIEF JUDGE CHIEF JUDGE, EMERITUS Kevin Thome, Cheese Reporter Jim Mueller, Mueller Consulting, Bill Schlinsog, Middleton, WI Dan Stearns, Agropur Green Bay, WI Robert Aschebrock, Stratford, WI Craig Linz, Tetra Pak Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Randy Swensen, WI Aging & Grading Cheese ASSISTANT CHIEF JUDGES Greg Alberts, Kelley Supply Tim Czmowski, Agropur, Inc., Hull, IA Mariana Marques de Almeida, Bruce Workman, Edelweiss Cheese Mrs. J & Co., Monroe, WI Gary Grossen, UW Babcock Hall Stan Dietsche, Oshkosh Cheese Sales & Storage, Oshkosh, WI Sandy Toney, Masters Gallery Foods, Bob Ehrenberg, Taylor Cheese Plymouth, WI Steve Krause Josef Hubatschek, ALPMA, Germany Richard Wold

EXPERT JUDGES Wisconsin Aging and Grading Cheese, Ken Jill Allen, Tillamook Cheese, Oregon Laura Laehn, Masters Gallery, WI and Cindy Neumeier, Randy Swensen, Kate Greg Anderson, Kroger Company, MN Susan Larson, Center for Dairy Research, WI Neumeier Clarke, and Amanda Neumeier- Kirk Baldwin, Valley Queen Cheese, SD Terry Lensmire, Agropur, WI Kist for accepting and sorting the contest Marc Bates, Bates Consulting, OR Charles Lindberg, NY State Agriculture, NY entries Ted Brown, Cabot Creamery, VT Michelle Malone, Schreiber Foods, WI WOW Logistics, Howard Kamerer, Jamie Wally, and the warehouse team in Little Kimberlee Burrington, Center for Dairy Research, WI Neville McNaughton, CheezSource, MO Chute led by Jerry Wicker for storing the Allison Butterbaugh, Clemson University, SC Christophe Megevand, Schuman Cheese, NJ contest entries SPECIAL THANKS TO THANKS SPECIAL Michael Comotto, DairiConcepts-Retired, MO Virgil Metzger, Consultant, IL Kim Wiesenberg and his team at Preferred Bénédicte Coudé, Schuman Cheese, CA Tammy Miller, Colony Brands, WI Transit and Cold Storage for transporting the Richard Dargan, Dargan Dairy Consulting, FL Gina Mode, Center for Dairy Research, WI entries for the Contest and the Conference. Cathy Dehn, AMPI, WI Ben Novak, Novak’s Cheese, WI Shaya Guilbault and George Stettler, Decatur Dairy and Kay Schmitz, Henning Cheese for Dominique Delugeau, Saputo Cheese, WI Michael Pederson, WI DATCP, WI Contest Headquarters assistance MaryAnne Drake, North Carolina State University, NC David Potter, Dairy Connection, Inc., WI Welcome Dairy for donating Contest supplies Chris Eckerman, Agropur, IA Jennifer Roberts, Agropur Ingredients, MN Glenda Buholzer, Klondike Cheese; Mary Dr. Nana Farkye, Cal Poly State, CA David Satterness, Chr. Hansen, SD Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Corie Chad Galer, Dairy Management Inc., IL Steve Schenkoske, TOSCA, WI Grossen, and Heidi Wold for creating cheese Jane Gau, Sargento Foods, WI John Simpson, USDA, WI sample displays at the contest. Eric Goan, Bluegrass Dairy & Food, KY Marianne Smukowski, Center for Dairy Research, WI Matthew and Michael Czmowski for Contest filming and video production Kory Hyvonen, Oshkosh Cheese & Cold Storage, WI Dean Sommer, Center for Dairy Research, WI Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin for providing John Jaeggi, Center for Dairy Research, WI Cathy Strange, Whole Foods, TX a bus tour for judges and providing Katelyn Johnson, Saputo Cheese, MN Randy Swensen, WI Aging and Grading, WI photographs of the winners at the U.S. Aileen Kacvinsky, Schuman Cheese, WI Don Tribby, DuPont Nutrition and Health, KS Champions Banquet. Silver Lewis Cheese & Kerry Kaylegian, Penn State, PA Eric Vorpahl, Masters Gallery, WI Decatur Dairy for storing contest materials Greg Kinate, Winona Foods, WI Nial Yager, Washington State University, WA Klondike Cheese for storing the winning Contest cheeses Kyle Koll, Sargento Foods, WI Steve Zeng, Langston University, OK Capital Equipment Handling, for donating Dan Konz, DairiConcepts, MN Matt Zimbric, Foremost Farms, WI two new pallet trucks used during the Contest

52 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST We owe a great deal of gratitude to the volunteers that help the Contest run smoothly, efficiently, and successfully. Thank you to all the volunteers 2019 CONTEST VOLUNTEERS who spent many hours with us to ensure a well-run Contest.

LITTLE CHUTE CHECK-IN GREEN BAY CONTEST VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEERS Jeff Montsma, Agropur George Stettler, Decatur Bill Wangerin, Lov-It Patrick Kachelmeier, Cole Johnson, Agropur Dairy Creamery Sargento Foods Inc Randy Swensen, WI Aging & Grading Ingredients Sofia Lara, DSM Barb Wangerin, Lov-It Sargento Cheese Travis Kobs, Morgan Thomes, John Burger, DSM Food Creamery Foods Inc. Robert Aschebrock Agropur Ingredients Specialties Gordon Bergemann, Ann Schad, Sargento Jim Mueller, Mueller Consulting Samantha Forster, Kim Schwartzmiller, Maple Leaf Cheese Store Foods Inc. Gary Vidlock Aladdin Label Emmi Roth USA David Grothaus, Trish Dawson, Sargento Larry Bell, LBell Consulting Jim Natzke, Alpine Shelby Sheppard, Marieke Gouda Foods, Inc Michael Pederson, WDATCP Slicing and Cheese Emmi Roth USA Benjamin Hanchet, Stacey Faust, Sargento Eric Vorpahl, Masters Gallery Foods Conversion Rob Bradley, Family Marieke Gouda Foods, Inc Aron Schilsky, Masters Gallery Foods Adam Bortz, AMPI Fresh Pack Kim Rabuck, Marieke Laura Spielvogel, Gouda Sargento Foods, Inc Mariana Marques de Almeida, Ms. J & Co. Steven Lutzke, Cardinal Ashley Clemons, International Food Family Fresh Pack Aron Schilsky, Masters Kari Jacobsen-Gagnow, Samantha Forster, Aladdin Label Solutions Todd Kriebs, Family Gallery Foods Sargento Foods, Inc. Jim Banks, Banks Consulting Mike Hlubek, Chalet Fresh Pack Jennifer Digman, Ken Kane, Sartori David Wangerin, Bella Pak/ MCT Dairies Cheese Cooperative Mary Wiklanski, MMPA/KrayolaSkyDairy/ Jeremy Werdeo, Sartori Steven Lutzke, Cardinal International TrinatArtisans/ Mike Czmowski, Foremost Farms USA Nick Caruso, Sartori Food Solutions SchroederKase Cheese World Drew Kordus, Great Cheese Kim Schwartzmiller, Emmi Roth USA Trevor Heiman, Matt Czmowski, Cheese Lakes Cheese Pam Hodgson, Sartori Nasonville Dairy Zachary Henning, Henning’s Cheese World Paul McCarthy, Great Cheese Ryan Heiman, Joshua Henning, Henning’s Cheese Julie Winans, Chr. Lakes Cheese Samantha Erickson, Nasonville Dairy Randy LaGrander, LaGrander Hillside Hansen Wes Huibregtse, Great Schuman Cheese Steve Funk, Nelson- Dairy Aaron Wojciga, Chr. Lakes Cheese-retired Michael Sachau, TC Jameson Bill Wangerin, Lov-It Creamery Hansen Richard Guggisberg, Transcontinental Pam Puttkamer, John Lyne, LW Allen Stefanie Rossner, Chr. Guggisberg Cheese Packaging Hansen Inc. Nelson-Jameson Benjamin DuCharme, M3 Insurance Kay Schmitz, Henning’s RJ Twiford, Tetra Pak Roger Rieck, Nelson- Jeremy Huston, Chr. Cheese Samantha Shepard, Adrian Avina, Masters Gallery Foods Jameson Hansen, Inc. Sandy Speich, Hoard’s Tillamook Kristin Friederichs, Masters Gallery Foods Reggie Way, Nelson- Brett Musser, Chr. Dairyman Farm Anna Ku, Tillamook Phil Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Jameson Hansen, Inc. Creamery County Creamery Mary Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Gary Peiper, Chr. Jessica Heupel, Kylie Schriever, Association Pennland Pure Jon Graf, ProActive Solutions USA Hansen, Inc. Ingredient Exchange Tom Hoppe, TOSCA Company Phil Lindemann, Pine Jane Gundrum, Sargento Beth Crave, Crave Alan Hamann, V&V River Pre-Pack, Inc. Amanda Muehlbauer, Sargento Foods Brothers Farmstead Jeff Klemp, Supremo Cheese,LLC International Machinery Mary Lindemann, Pine Jacqui Wenzel, Sargento Foods Shane Forrest, Ryan Slane, D&G Exchange River Pre-Pack, Inc. Michael Hietpas, Sargento Foods Inc Watertech of America Transportation, Inc./ Erin Janssen, Kelley Chauncey Behm, Pine Lisa Hall, WI Aging & Travis Kobs, Sargento Foods Inc. D&G Climate Control Supply River Pre-Pack, Inc. Grading Cheese Kyle Koll, Sargento Foods Inc. Warehousing Eric Steltenpohl, Kersia Jane Gundrum, Robert Fife Ann Schad, Sargento Foods Inc. Gideon St. Aubin, Glenda Buholzer, Sargento Corie Grossen Joshua Vandenberg, Sargento Foods Inc. DairiConcepts Klondike Cheese Co. Dan Lessuise, Sargento Josh Hunter Jane Gau, Sargento Foods Inc. Bill Rufenacht, Dairy Lenny Bass, Lactalis Foods Connection Jenni Iggens Stacey Faust, Sargento Foods, Inc American Group Deborah Moore, Jon Wilson, Dairy Sargento Foods Cory Meyer Mark Collins, Tetra Pak Gary Gosda, Lake Connection Country Dairy Amanda Muehlbauer, William Mortell Kevin Christensen, The Probst Group Adam Brock, Dairy Lisa LaBlanc, Lake Sargento Foods Lisa Schulz Farmers of Wisconsin Country Dairy Dave Wentz, Sargento Gary Vidlock Special thanks to Randy Swensen, Katie Currier, Dairy Foods Kathryn Vergeront, Anna Vorpahl Jim Mueller, Gary Vidock, and Bob Farmers of Wisconsin Lanco Pennland Jacqui Wenzel, Aschebrock who worked for many Tom Vorpahl Shaya Guilbault, Katie Watts, Laubscher Sargento Foods Heidi Wold days prior to check-in, hauling, Decatur Dairy Cheese Company Michael Hietpas, sorting and re-boxing cheese. Sargento Foods Inc

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