Monday, April 25th
9:00am to 5:00pm
Governor’s Restaurant Capitol Room
Waterville, Maine
Fee: (includes all materials and a buffet lunch)
$50 for 2016 Guild Members
$75 for non-members (includes 2016 Guild membership)
The Maine Cheese Guild will sponsor a workshop focused on helping small dairies create the best possible milk for their own use, and/or for sale to the growing number of Maine cheese makers. Gary Anderson, Maine’s long-time dairy agent at Cooperative Extension, will cover these topics:
- What do we mean when we say “milk quality”
- Maine resources
- Milk components and characteristics
- Milk quality of different dairy animals and breeds
- Quality variation dependent on the end use of milk (fluid, cheese, yogurt, etc.)
- Animal health
- Good decisions during the milking process
- Comparison of milking systems, the challenges and benefits of each
- Sanitation process and tools
- The challenges of the organic dairy
- Proper milk storage, affects on quality
- Proper milk transport
- On-farm testing options for dairies
- Questions, individual troubleshooting
To sign up please send the full workshop fee with your name, phone number, and email address to:
Maine Cheese Guild
c/o Mary Belding, Treasurer
250 Walker Mills Rd.
Harrison, Maine 04040
The Maine Cheese Guild needs to finalize the lunch count ahead of the workshop so we must receive your payment at least 1 week ahead of time to guarantee access to the buffet lunch.