Ellsworth Brings Home Some Wins at NMPF Cheese Contest

We were excited to participate in the 2019 National Milk Producers Federation’s Championship Cheese Contest. Every year NMPF hosts the annual cheese contest member cooperatives. This year 15 NMPF cooperative members submitted 237 entries, totaling 3050 pounds of cheese to be judged.  (And if you’re asking, ‘what happens to all that cheese after the contest?’ […]

How Wisconsin Cheese Curds Earned the Title, “Best Cheese Curds in Minnesota”

In the ultimate blind taste test, Wisconsin’s best Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery’s cheese curds are now also the best in Minnesota! How could that be? Well, it’s the thing legends are made of. Here’s our story… In June Minnesota’s CBS station, WCCO-TV, put out the call to Facebook followers and viewers to help them find the […]

Celebrating our Latest Award Winning Cheeses!

Last week the American Cheese Society (ACS) held its annual conference in Denver, CO. This year’s theme, ‘Cheese with Altitude’. One of the highlights, the competition naming the best cheeses of the Americas. The ACS contest is one of the three major technical cheese competitions in the U.S. along with the World Championship Cheese Contest […]