Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery

Last updated

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin. [1] [2] It has retail locations in Ellsworth and Menomonie, Wi. The cooperative ships throughout the United States and Ellsworth Cheese Curds are found in grocery store chains in the upper Midwest. Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is also a milk processing and whey drying plant. [3]

Contents

History

The cooperative was started in 1910 to manufacture and sell butter. In 1966 the cooperative began making cheese. Two years later, it began to sell packaged curds. In 1984 Ellsworth was named the State's Cheese Curd Capital because of the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. [4] The Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery opened a store in 2010 in Rochester, Minnesota called "The Country Creamery". Similar to the co-op in Ellsworth, the Rochester store sells milk, butter, cheese, and cheese curds. [5] Blaser's Premium Cheeses of Comstock, Wisconsin was purchased by the Ellsworth Cooperative in June, 2011. [6] Today the creamery produces 160,000 pounds of cheese curds daily. It is a supplier of cheese curds for state fairs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Alaska. [1]

The Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery sponsors the annual Cheese Curd Festival in Ellsworth. Begun in 2001, the festival features vendor booths, a beer garden, live auctions, parades, activities for children, and cheese curd eating contests. [7]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tillamook County Creamery Association</span>

The Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) is a farmer-owned dairy cooperative headquartered in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The association manufactures and sells dairy products under the "Tillamook" brand name. Its main facility is the Tillamook Creamery, located two miles north of the city of Tillamook on U.S. Route 101.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ellsworth, Wisconsin</span> Village in Wisconsin, United States

Ellsworth is a village in and the county seat of Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,348 at the 2020 census. The village is adjacent to the Town of Ellsworth and now incorporates the formerly separate district known as East Ellsworth. The municipality of Ellsworth and its surroundings are slowly becoming incorporated into the Twin Cities Metro Area.

Glanbia plc is an Irish global nutrition group with operations in 32 countries. It has leading market positions in sports nutrition, cheese, dairy ingredients, speciality non-dairy ingredients and vitamin and mineral premixes. Glanbia products are sold or distributed in over 130 countries. While Europe and the USA represent the biggest markets, the Group are continuing to expand into the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Glanbia's primary listing is on Euronext Dublin. The Group has four segments; Glanbia Nutritionals, Performance Nutrition, Glanbia Ireland and Joint Ventures & Associates, with a combined workforce of over 7,000 employees in 32 countries.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an American member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, focusing on the dairy industry. The cooperative has 1,959 direct producer-members, 751 member-cooperatives, and about 9,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers, handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually. It is ranked third on the National Cooperative Bank Co-op 100 list of mutuals and cooperatives. The co-op is one of the largest producers of butter and cheese in the United States through its dairy foods business; serves producers, animal owners and their families through more than 4,700 local cooperatives, independent dealers and other large retailers through its Purina Animal Nutrition business; and delivers seed, crop protection products, agricultural services and agronomic insights to 1,300 locally owned and operated cooperative and independent agricultural retailers and their grower customers through its WinField United business.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colby cheese</span> American semi-hard cheese

Colby is a semihard orange cheese made from cow's milk. It is named after the city of Colby, Wisconsin, USA, where it was first developed in 1885 and quickly became popular.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Culver's</span> Restaurant chain in the United States

Culver Franchising System, LLC, doing business as Culver's, is an American fast-casual restaurant chain. The company was founded in 1984 by George, Ruth, Craig, and Lea Culver. The first location opened in Sauk City, Wisconsin, on July 18, 1984, under the name "Culver's Frozen Custard and ButterBurgers." The privately held company is headquartered in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The chain operates primarily in the Midwestern United States, and has a total of 930 restaurants in 26 states as of October 2023.

The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative owned by Agri-Mark. The cooperative has a plant in Cabot, Vermont, but its administrative headquarters is in Waitsfield, Vermont.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saputo Dairy UK</span> British dairy products company

Saputo Dairy UK, formerly Dairy Crest Limited, is a British dairy products company. It was created in 2019 when the Canadian company Saputo Inc bought Dairy Crest. Dairy Crest itself was created in 1981 as a spin-off of the Milk Marketing Board. Its brands include Saputo Dairy UK, Cathedral City Cheddar Cheese, Country Life Butter, Utterly Butterly, Vitalite and Clover.

The 1933 Wisconsin milk strike was a series of strikes conducted by a cooperative group of Wisconsin dairy farmers in an attempt to raise the price of milk paid to producers during the Great Depression. Three main strike periods occurred in 1933, with length of time and level of violence increased during each one.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Humboldt Creamery</span>

Humboldt Creamery was formerly an agricultural marketing cooperative located on the California North Coast currently owned by Foster Farms Dairy of Modesto, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cuisine of Wisconsin</span> Food and drinks from Wisconsin

The cuisine of Wisconsin is a type of Midwestern cuisine found throughout the state of Wisconsin in the United States of America. Known as "America's Dairyland", Wisconsin is famous for its cheese as well as other dairy products, such as cheese curds and frozen custard. Other notable foods common to the region include bratwursts, beer and brandy Old Fashioned cocktails, butter burgers, fish fries and fish boils, cranberries, and booyah stew.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prairie Farms Dairy</span> American Midwestern dairy cooperative

Prairie Farms Dairy is a dairy cooperative founded in Carlinville, Illinois, and now headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. As a dairy cooperative, Prairie Farms receives milk from producers and converts it into many different products, including cheese, butter, ice cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, various dips, yogurt, and fluid milk. Prairie Farms also produces and sells juices, flavored drinks, and pre-made iced tea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alto Dairy Cooperative</span> Former dairy cooperative in Waupun, Wisconsin, US

Alto Dairy Cooperative (ADC) was a farmer-owned dairy cooperative in Waupun, Wisconsin. Founded in 1894, it is the oldest farmer-owned cooperative in the state of Wisconsin and boasts the nation's largest cheese producing plant east of the Mississippi River. As of 2007, ADC had two cheese plants, one in Black Creek and one in Waupun, as well as 467 employees. The cooperative has a membership of about 500 farmers. In 2007, it handled $378 million in sales and had a net income of $19.6 million.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company</span> United States historic place

The Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company in Prentice, Wisconsin was central to the community's transition from lumber to agriculture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Vermont Creamery is a creamery and artisanal cheese and butter-maker in Websterville, Vermont, USA. It was founded in 1984 by business partners Allison Hooper and Bob Reese. Previously known as the Vermont Butter and Cheese Company, the company adopted its current name in 2013.

Tirlán is an Irish dairy co-operative. The co-operative has its roots in a series of amalgamations of small rural co-operative creamery societies throughout County Kilkenny, most notably the amalgamation of Avonmore Creameries Federation in 1966.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wisconsin dairy industry</span> Overview of the milk producing industry in Wisconsin

Dairy is a major industry in the state of Wisconsin. Being known for its dairy production, the state is often called "America's Dairyland." The industry is prominent in official state symbols—being displayed on the state's license plates, state's slogan, and on the state quarter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of cheesemaking in Wisconsin</span> History of the cheesemaking industry in Wisconsin

Commercial cheesemaking in Wisconsin dates back to the nineteenth century. Early cheesemaking operations began on farmsteads in the Michigan and Wisconsin territories, with large-scale production starting in the mid-1800s. Wisconsin became the largest producer of cheese in the United States in the early 1900s, and in 2019 produced over 3.36 billion pounds of cheese in more than 600 varieties, accounting for 26% of all cheese made in the country that year.

References

  1. 1 2 Anderson, Jim (August 23, 2011). "For State Fair, 60 tons of cheese curds from 1 dairy". Star Tribune. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  2. "The Ellsworth Cooperative reamery". Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  3. "SavorWisconsin.com". SavorWisconsin.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  4. Clarkson, Aileen. "Cheese Curd Festival in Ellsworth, Wisconsin". USA Today. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  5. Clausen, Heidi. "Ellsworth Co-op Creamery buys Barron County cheese factory". The Country Today. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  6. "Ellsworth Co-op Creamery buys Barron County cheese factory", The Country Today, September 28, 2011.
  7. "Culture The Word On Cheese". CheeseToast Inc. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.

Further reading