News: Greenwood (New Dairy Plant Added – Nov 1932)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Claflin, Kocher, Scheuring

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 01 Dec 1932

Another Flexible dairy plant has been added to the list of those in the state with the announcement of Greenwood Milk Products Cooperative of Clark County, according to an announcement just made by C.L. Claflin, marketing specialist of the Dept. of Agriculture and Markets.

The Greenwood Cooperative will operate in a warehouse formerly owned by the Wis. Cheese Producers Federation, but which was discontinued under the consolidation program of the federation. At the present time the plant will manufacture only cheese, and according to a vote of the stockholders, the cheese will be sold to the federation.

Three year contracts have been signed, which will bring the milk of 1200 cows to the factory and provided a cheese production of approximately half a million pounds a year. Stock in the warehouse and in the new cooperative is owned by farmers.

The new plant is equipped to store, age and paraffin its own cheese and on the basis of 500,000 pounds od cheese a year, will manufacture cheese at a net cost of from one and a quarter to one and a half cents a pound. This figure, according to the marketing specialist, is from a cent to a cent and a quarter less than the average cheese factory costs in the state at present, due to the fact that many factories are not operating up to capacity.

A half cent per pound cost is saved by the cooperative through warehousing alone.

Fred Kocher and J.P. Scheuring are the newly elected president and secretary of the organization.