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We wish to recognize and congratulate the recipients of this year’s Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery Scholarships. The goal of this program is to provide scholarships to members of our cooperative’s families who wish to continue their post high school One of the largest events in the area, and one that some education in Agriculture at a two of you are surely planning to attend, is the Great year technical school or a four Minnesota Get-Together, the State Fair! We’re excited year university. Wishing you all to once again be the main supplier of cheese curds for much success in your future Elizabeth S. Anderson, daughter of Bryon and Sara Anderson. “ ” the event. careers! Attending UW-River Falls. Our retail store served on a soft buttery croissant. It’s curd-elicious!), The MN State Fair expects nothing but the best and we customers have The Hamarti (deli ham paired with our Blaser's Havarti gladly stepped in to take the role of main curd supplier; been enjoying cheese. Topped with Dijonaise and served on a rustic providing over 50 tons of curds to the 12-day festival. some new food ciabatta roll), The Beefy Bacon Cheddar (deli roast beef When you’re at the fair, please thank your vendors who options this with our Blaser's Bacon Cheddar, topped with garlic are proudly serving up real Ellsworth Cheese Curds: summer. With butter and served on herbed focaccia) and the Gouda Original Deep Fried Cheese Curds busy schedules Gobbler (deli sliced roast turkey with our Ellsworth The Mouth Trap in mind, we Valley Garlic Gouda, topped with tomato pesto and launched a line served on a rustic ciabatta roll)! Big Cheese of pizzas and The line of sandwiches and pizzas carry “The Happy Duke’s Poutine deli sandwiches that feature fresh and wholesome Farmer” label, a marketing and branding strategy that And when you’re enjoying your corn on the cob from ingredients, including Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery was developed to help create a name and buzz for the The Corn Roast, it’s going to taste even better now that Mykayla Getschel, daughter of Ashley Stafne, daughter of cheeses. new products. The name was meant to be a “tip of the Doug and Holly Getschel. you know it’s Ellsworth Creamery Butter slathered on it! Michael and Bonnie Stafne. Take and Bake pizzas were tested in the Ellsworth hat” to our patron farmers and tribute to the joy and Attending Iowa State University. Attending UW-Barron. store this spring and after months of tasting and passion they bring to agriculture and our cooperative. ingredient-tweaking have been experiencing swift The development of these food items was also meant sales. The 12” pizzas feature Ellsworth All Natural to be a way for us to build a market for our cheeses Cheese Curd Crumbles as their base, with additional and inspire new and creative uses for our products Ellsworth cheeses on top. Three flavors were with consumers and restaurant chefs and owners. introduced initially: Cheese, Pepperoni and Sausage. A new pizza flavor, Chicken Bacon Ranch, was recently added and is quickly becoming a top seller. Each pizza boasts nearly a pound of Ellsworth cheeses! Taking a cue from our Comstock store, we’re now offering our popular deli sandwiches in Ellsworth, too. With limited restaurant options in both the Comstock and Ellsworth areas, this was very well received by customers. The sandwiches are made fresh daily, and just like the pizzas, feature our delicious cheeses! A 232 North Wallace Street “boxed lunch” option is also available and businesses Ellsworth, WI 54011 and groups can pre-order for meetings and events. (715) 273-4311 Just as we were sending this publication to print, we received word We’ve been getting positive reviews about the flavor from WCCO TV that they planned to stop at our Comstock store and www.ellsworthcheese.com combinations and the clever sandwich names: The production facility as part of their Goin’ to the Lake segment Chicken Crumbler (tangy chicken salad made special featuring the Cumberland, WI area. If you missed seeing this feature during their newscast on August 13, visit our Facebook page or with the addition of our natural cheddar cheese curd website where we have posted the replay videos. Above, John crumbles. Garnished with tomato and romaine and Freyholtz, Operations Manager, in front of the camera! We wanted to take the opportuni- ty to wish Beth Ingli all the best in her new adventures. Beth recent- By Paul Bauer, CEO, Manager ly announced her plans to accept [email protected] Back by we knew we had to be realistic. To a part-time job offer so that she popular de- qualify for this prize the party must be can spend more time on the farm Several national and international California farmers are moving to the mand, it’s within 100 miles of Ellsworth. We and with her family. matters are having a ripple effect that upper Midwest because they can grab our Big Curd chose 100 miles because that’s where is impacting the world of dairy. It’s large tracts of land in South Dakota We couldn’t possibly list all of Fan Chal- our patron farms are located, and we important for our farmers to be aware and Michigan and relocate their herds, Beth’s contributions to our coop- lenge on wanted you to qualify for the contest! Two Ellsworth Cooperative of what’s happening in the global mar- leading to a growth in dairy in that erative. In her role as Retail Stores Facebook; A Creamery cheeses took home ket and how issues you may be hear- area adding to the milk supply locally. Those who live further away than 100 Supervisor she was instrumental repeat of honors from the American Cheese ing about on the news are affecting miles can still be winners with our sec- in expanding the sales and repu- The International market is totally last year’s competition that resulted in Society (ACS) cheese competition milk and cheese prices. ond and third prize offerings... tation of our retail stores and last month. Blasers Wisconsin flooded with milk due to the Russian attracting 4,000 loyal and engaged online sales. She oversaw an ex- Second Place: The Whole Herd for a Brick earned first place in the First, there’s a lot of milk in the world embargo. Large amounts of product followers to our Facebook community. pansion of our Ellsworth location Year, one pound packages of each of American Originals category for and this is going to change how farm- from New Zealand, Australia and Eu- and under her direction our stores Social media, continues to be an ex- our top cheese curd flavors (Natural, the Cow’s Milk Brick Cheese divi- ers are paid in the upper Midwest. rope are parked in China making it have become daytrip destinations tremely valuable tool for educating Garlic, Taco, Ranch and Cajun), sion. In the Flavored Cheeses Cat- Fluid milk consumption is going down, very hard to move additional dry prod- that attract thousands of visitors the public, attracting customers, and shipped to their home every month egory, under the Monterey Jack as it has for years. The amount of Class ucts into those markets. As a result, monthly. driving traffic to our website and retail for a year! Imagine 365 days of cheese with Flavor Added (All Milks) divi- 1 milk available to go in the bottle is we view the export powder market as and online stores. Our goal continues curd enjoyment; what cheese curd An enterprise such as ours has sion, Blasers Hot Pepper Jack was increasing. These factors combined very soft and that probably won’t to be growing a community of en- lover could resist that? many moving parts and Beth’s named the second place winner. will put downward pressure on prices change until the world economy starts gaged and enthusiastic fans, and turn- position came with long hours, for Class 1 and the PPD. picking up, or demand starts picking Third Place: A $50 Ellsworth Creamery We wish to acknowledge the ing them into loyal customers, as we and at times, much stress. Yet Class 2 milk will cause the PPD to go up, or we have less production. We Gift Card. The winner can visit our re- efforts of everyone within our did with last year’s winner, Connie, Beth always approached her work negative for an extended period of have some really mixed signals all the tail stores in Ellsworth or Comstock, organization for their contribu- and her co-workers from Carl Zeiss energetically and with a smile. time. Since Class 2 milk is based on the way around. WI, or spend their prize online via our tions to making quality cheeses Company in Maple Grove, MN! higher of Class 3 or Class 4, we’re go- As your cooperative, we’re trying to website (EllsworthCheeseCurds.com). She assures us that we’ll still see that continuously earn national ing to see negative PPDs for the fore- manage through this and taking each The objective of this year’s contest is her on a regular basis, though. “I recognition. From our cheese The best part... YOU can qualify to seeable future, which isn’t good for of these issues into consideration to break the 15,000 page follower won’t be a stranger because I still making staff, to you, our patron win these prize packages, too. Enter the upper Midwest. throughout our decision-making and mark, and when we do, three great need to eat the best cheese in the farmers, we believe that it’s a by visiting our website or Facebook planning processes.

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