The Wisconsin Dairy Products Promotion Board is giving you more reasons to visit your favorite cheesemongers this weekend. This week, the board held its annual Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Products Contest, handing out several awards across 50 cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, fluid milk, and custard category classes. Agropur’s Luxemburg plant and Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese in Kewaunee captured three blue ribbons in this year’s edition. Pat Doell won the smoked cheese category with his smoked provolone cheese. Doell also had the second and third-place entries in the mozzarella category, coming in just behind his colleague at the plant, Jeremy Robinson. Produced 10 miles from the Agropur plant, Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese won with artisanal hand-packed garlic and dill-flavored cheese curds in the flavored cheese curds category. The entries will be displayed during the Wisconsin State Fair, which runs August 1st-11th.
