Show Cheese-makin- Cache Volley bv I Tim Gurrister new s I Ed Gossner lookedover the I arei editor Gnssritr tin- man who hi Ijx-put it all together left the association m TK3 lx-- ause of i ontrai t disputes till- valley had a Bv If i pro eusug plant a 1! w i ( f H id ( fit ese m W i llsv ille - matter with this plo e"1 v alley's i heese That was the start of the the industry The Swiss immigrant persuaded tn AssiKiution Valiev Caihi Dairy jtruggUng make cheese with its milk and by iy42 ttie association's chtese plant was in operation The Smithfield plant's four employees made Swiss cheese vears later CV I'A Manager Blaine Rich plant's sales at JtO mill mi e Arneru an annually The 2Tb employees produi i heese as several and Jaik process Monterey Thirty-fiv- e puts the well as Swiss Today the vallev holds five factories involved sort of c heese-makin- g heese competes extreme! "Cache Valiev well with cheese from the rest of the world" Dr of nutrition and fixnl Gary Richardson professor aciene at USU told Student Life in some all over Richardson has visit ed cheese-makethe world advising on product improvement Area cheese-makeexplained why Cache Valley is a good place to produce cheese "The valley cow produi es fine milk” W’ally Pamsh CVDA publn relations director said "It IS good cheese milk rs rs Alfalfa grows well Pamsh employed bv the association since 1944 explained that alfalfa grows well in the alkaline soil of the valley Alfalfa he said is the best feed a cow can get for good milk production "The valley is an ideal place to produce milk" Ernest Groll said The climate the type of feed all are conducive to prixluc mg milk at reasonable prices Groll manages the Hu hrnond c heese plant for the Western Dairymen's Co-o- p Inc droll worked for Ed Gossner at the (TI)A plant from 1950 to 1965 Gossner was general manager of the plant iroll said Gossner the patron saint of Cai he Valley's cheese industry in the words of a competitor explained his role in t! growth of the CV'TM the of the industry easily the largest cheese-proder m the valley ' The organization in 1941 wasnt doing anv business I had heard of the valley and the milk and the organizati n And 1 saw the opportunity The area was in tiad shape- The depression had teai N r He was my 11 - n'i r 40o 400 hi iiti-rie- g I I oup and i an pr said men s ( o-- hard now (11 three natural the CM ) plant the Westirr plant and Gossni r s plant dio-n-iiiiK- i Dinv om ration ai after leavilg Uie (lues G s n r fiad 01 ganied the vallev sfl!-it- i Imilt uiotbi-one the valley s third ( learfield ('hi ese Company in WelLsville is a pi ik ess heese plant The company is a subsidiary of H B HikkI Itu an eastern TikkI firm a A plant representative Clearfield bought what was the Carnation condensing plant in 1'iM ( arna tion left the building the year previous The other cheese prix essor the I D S hreilx-in Company constructed a plant in August 1972 A representative of the firm said the plant was built here because of its logo a! location for west roast distribution fd Gossner o native cheese maker of Switzerland says h thought Cache Valley would bo a good place to start a cheese industry Duo to his efforts and the efforts of the Car he VaHey Dan y Assoc tot met the valley s five cheese plan ts are world renowned I ud u sirs employ hundreds Bath sell mainly outside the state S hreiber has employed close to 3K) laborers since first starting production the representative said In 19M Clearfield employed 50 workers Tixlay that figure has tripled the Clearfield sxikesman said Both are national organizations with plants in other parts of the c ountry Clearfield prex esses American Swiss Pimento and Hot PepfH-- cheese as well as cheese LkkI and cheese spread S hreiber concentrates ori American and Swivs prK ess cheese making some natural Cheddar and Mozzarella Manager Blaine Ku h said 700000 pounds of milk is converted into cheese daily at the (TIM plant almost double the poundage of the next largest natural ( heese-mak- er Tallied In - pounds Professor Richardson explained that in the heese industry nulk is tallied in pounds to fac ilitdte measuring conversion to cheese About fion 000 pound of milk converts to fd) DU) pounds of ( heese" he said The Western Dairymans Co-oplant in Richmond was the Pet Condensed Milk plant took ov er the until 1'kJt T hat same y ear the blix ks of 41 fxmnd mostly making building ( said Iroll hedd ir fiO I he plant converts approximately of 0(Ml Most the said of Groll dulv milk pounds ( heese made bv the 45 workers is sold within the state but proLihlv consumed outsidi of it he said I ti mi hides sivcn rnemlx r oops he said T h spreit throughout the west Kn tunonil plant provides an outlet for the members’ surplus milk innvirts 4 0 00 pounds of Gossner s (Tiet-smilk daily When Gossner left the (TIM be did what anv heese-make- r might do A1 though he had been tn the business a long time he wasn't ready for retirement sc rate h By 19C6 he had built his own plant from over a wheat field in Ixigun At that Lime the ( p c Knowledge of p system We had a p system in Switzerland and Wisconsin so I knew how they worked " Gossner left Switzerland for Wisconsin in 19 TO After the six veais there making cheese- - he moved to California I luring the four y ears th re he made cheese fur an Italian family before the fmdl move to ac be V alley and the (TIM The association m 1940 bought the building vacated by the Amalga Sugar Company in 1917 Pamsh said Frank Tueller bought the plant for LOCO when Amalga went broke he explained Tueller sold the building 23 years later for the ame Pnce to his neighbors the farmers in the co-o- co-o- ( - t I J i j I I j I dairy co-o- p Parrish said Gossner brought machinery from Wisconsin or the building which is now the assoc iation’s raeese plant He described his working agree-- 1 ment with the CVDA: He provided labor and supplies for 15 per cent of all equipment furnished Jd' building for their 85 fattne-r- s the milk and the per cent ‘ o-- ) DEG DM3GS SC3AC3UV IN THE HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE plant had three workers plus the family Fid Gossner Jr who works for his father said 1351 East 7th North The factory now employs 125 plus the family he said The family corporation opened a second plant in Napa Idaho in 1973 hiring 30 workers COLD DAY EAQE HOT SOUP HOT CHILI HOT BBQ Cuodensing industry leaves i lP® Browth me of the association meant the end of condensed milk industry in the valley The M condensing plants Borden’s Pet and r arnation were the major buyers of the arnier s milk before to the Gossner brought his trade area Borden’s plant folded in 1948 the other saving m the mid-sixtiGossner said he condensors j 5ai fixmgarenl two were not always fair in what fanners for their milk Pamsh ‘e tlree e1Kaged in some price were Pretty Mer’ Gossner said friendly to each membership today consists of farmers vniCiSait’ arniers m the co-o- p are found as far Utah and as far north as Burley a? i toaho he said "" arietn-- s of i hi i si-- I v a r n t it s of i )i i i m ’o t lx‘ -- plt r to a I at jr i! I I ess i f i i a group H i bar d n ill lie Valley rs " v i - hit f i tn ai he Valiev in 1941 uni asked ' Whit the hell is 1 1 flavored by cheese industry the t Student life Friday Feb 4 1977 Page becomes tradition g Generations of rherse-makln- g similar to what Gossner Sr now has a set-uHis Switzerland family was m behind he left four generations involved in cheese-makin- g before his time and owns a dairy fann in Switzerland to this day "In Switzerland it is traditional for the oldest son to inherit the farm it is his birthright" he said “My oldest brother’s first son now owns the farm I grew up on I was a happy farm boy there for 20 years My father and grandfather were bom on that farm " Gossner's son and oldest grandson are regisCheese-makin- g Gossners tered cheese-make- rs with hundreds of years experience making cheese will apparently be part of Izigan for years to come You're Always Welcome p 8 am rt 'T- K 1 0 pm |