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  Celebs and chefs make Maytag Blue a cheese to envy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Made in a cheese plant at the Maytag Dairy Farms on the outskirts of Newton, Iowa, Maytag Blue is a darling of the gourmet food set and ordinary cheese lovers.
Maytag is a son of the blue cheese company's founder, Frederick Louis Maytag II, and a great-grandson of the first Frederick Louis Maytag, founder of the Maytag appliance company.
Maytag Dairy Farms, where Maytag Blue cheese is made, is not connected to Maytag Corp., the Newton-based appliance company, although the cheese company is owned by 12 descendants of the appliance company founder.
www.azcentral.com /home/food/articles/0122maytagcheese22.html   (629 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Maytag Dairy Farms
It was established in 1941 by a son of the founder of Maytag Corporation, and is currently owned by a dozen of his descendents.
The dairy was founded to take advantage of a process developed by Iowa State University researchers to make blue cheese out of cow's milk, rather than the traditional sheep's milk used in Roquefort cheese.
Maytag Dairy Farms is a manufacturer of blue cheese and other cheeses based in Newton, Iowa.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maytag-Dairy-Farms   (281 words)

  
 Maytag Dairy Farms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The farm got its start in the early 20th century when E. Maytag, son of Maytag Corporation founder F. Maytag, formed a dairy farm to produce milk for the family and company.
In the early 1940s, F. Maytag II and Robert Maytag, sons of E. Maytag, created a cheese plant and storage caves on the farm to take advantage of a process developed by Iowa State University researchers to make blue cheese out of cow's milk instead of traditional sheep's milk.
Maytag Dairy Farms is now owned by twelve members of the Maytag family and is no longer connected with the Maytag Corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maytag_Dairy_Farms   (226 words)

  
 F. L. Maytag III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Louis Maytag III (born December 9, 1937 in Newton, Iowa), or Fritz Maytag, is the owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco and is Chairman of the Board of the Maytag Dairy Farms.
Maytag is the great-grandson of Maytag Corporation founder F.L. Maytag and the son of Maytag Dairy Farms founder F.L. Maytag II.
A fan of Anchor Steam Beer, Maytag bought the company in 1965 when he learned it was going out of business.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fritz_Maytag   (273 words)

  
 Cheese whiz is better known for Bay Area's Anchor Steam brew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In his adopted hometown of San Francisco, Maytag, co-chairman of Newton, Iowa's Maytag Dairy Farms, is known for being the owner of Anchor Steam Brewing Co., maker of Anchor Steam beer and other brews.
Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III, great-grandson of the founder of the Maytag appliance company, grew up in Newton, going to the public schools for through ninth grade.
After ninth grade, Maytag went off to an East Coast academy and then on to Stanford University in California, staying on to live in the San Francisco area and buying Anchor Steam.
www.azcentral.com /home/food/articles/0122maytagcheese222.html   (325 words)

  
 Maytag Blue cheese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maytag is a blue cheese produced on the Maytag Dairy Farms outside of Newton, Iowa (the home of the Maytag Corporation).
Production of the cheese was started by Frederick L. Maytag II and Robert Maytag, grandsons of the founder of the Maytag appliance company, Frederick L. Maytag.
Little Big Cheese: Maytag's Growing Niche Market NPR's article on Maytag blue cheese (check the photo gallery for some informative pictures).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maytag_Blue_cheese   (155 words)

  
 Fork & Bottle: US Cheese Makers - Artisan & Farmstead Directory
Beaver Brook Farm is a 175 acre sheep and cow farm in Lyme, CT's Pleasant Valley.
Maytag Dairy Farms - In 1941, Maytag Dairy Farms in Newton, IA, began producing its world famous blue cheese in the heartland of America, with milk from a prize-winning herd of Holstein cattle.
Taylor Farm - in Londonderry, VT Thistle Hill Farm - Tarentaise is an aged alpine raw milk cheese handmade on the Putnam family farm in North Pomfret, VT, from the certified organic milk of their grass-fed Jersey cows.
www.forkandbottle.com /cheese/uscheese.htm   (5892 words)

  
 Agri News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maytag blue cheese, a piquant blue-veined cheese aged in subterranean vaults or "caves" beneath this central Iowa city, has developed a cult following among gourmets.
Maytag's son, Elmer Henry Maytag, began working at his father's company in 1902 and eventually became president in 1926.
While their father saw the farms as a hobby, the sons determined the business should be self-sufficient.
webstar.postbulletin.com /agrinews/279389002707254.bsp   (861 words)

  
 Cheese - Maytag Blue
Maytag Blue Cheese Dip - Fabulous dip made with sour cream, heavy cream, cream cheese and Maytag Blue.
Maytag Blue Cheese Slaw - The Maytag mayonnaise includes vinegar, Dijon, peanut oil, egg and Maytag blue.
Interestingly the Maytag dairy is owned by the sons of the famous founder of Maytag appliances.
www.gourmetsleuth.com /cheese_maytagblue.htm   (225 words)

  
 Dairy Science Department
Boddicker was born and raised on a Dairy farm has a B. in Dairy Science and a M.S. in Biochemistry from South Dakota State University.
Between 1979 and 1984 he was in Wolsey, SD managing his family dairy and crop farm consisting of 2000 acres, 130 grade and registered dairy cow commercial dairy operation and a hog finishing operation.
CWT is sponsored by dairy cooperatives throughout the U.S. with the goal of improving and stabilizing the economic situation for dairy farmers.
dairysci.sdstate.edu /Careers/CareersinDairyScience/AlumniCareers.htm   (11868 words)

  
 The Cheese Diaries: Comment on The Washing Machine of Cheese: Maytag Blue
Maytag cheese makers, however, are still hand making the same cheese that they created in the 1930’s.
Maytag Blue’s popularity has taken off with the growing interest in American farmstead cheeses, and this wonderful, relatively mild blue cheese is featured on menus across the country.
Fritz Maytag was also involved in beer brewing, most notably as the owner of Anchor Steam, and is well celebrated for his effect on that industry.
www.cheesediaries.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=154   (780 words)

  
 Maytag Dairy Farms - Newton, IA
"Maytag cheese is among the world’s best blues.
It has a crumbly texture that makes it well-suited for salads, and yet it feels moist and creamy on the tongue.
"Maytag Farm is on a country road far off the beaten path."
www.roadfood.com /Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=626   (92 words)

  
 Dairy Farms Web Listings Information | Business.com
Dairy farms are farms where cows are raised to make milk and milk products like cheese,...
The only dairy in Georgia to milk the cows and put the milk in the jug right on the farm; specializing in educational farm tours for school children.
Dairy Excel is a multifaceted management education program specifically designed to improve the competitiveness of the northeastern Ohio dairy industry.
www.business.com /directory/food_and_beverage/dairy_producers/dairy_business_services/farms/weblistings.asp   (595 words)

  
 NPR : Little Big Cheese: Maytag's Growing Niche Market
Maytag Farms president Myrna VerPloeg in her company's cheese-making facility.
The company was started by Fred Maytag, then president of the well-known appliance maker and owner of a small dairy farm in central Iowa.
While the appliance maker is now publicly owned, the dairy farm remains very much a Maytag family business, where many employees have worked for decades.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4245627   (245 words)

  
 Some Perfect Cheese
During my visit to the Cowgirl Creamery and the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company I had the opportunity not only to tour their facilities and taste some very exciting cheeses, but also learn how they are working, all of them together, to protect and preserve the resources of the area.
Bob and Dean graciously told me and my daughter the background of their dairy farm, purchased in 1959, and the giant step they took just two years ago.
Maytag is perhaps the most famous blue cheese maker in the United States.
home.comcast.net /~atjebbastable/2002/CC44-3_29_02.htm   (1338 words)

  
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Swiss Valley Farms, a farmer-owned cooperative with operations in Iowa, makes blue cheese at its plant in Mindoro, Wis. Myrna Ver Ploeg, president of Maytag Dairy Farms, said she did not think the Golden Ridge and Maytag blue cheeses can be compared.
The Maytag Dairy Farm, which was founded by Maytag appliance family members in 1941, no longer is connected with the company.
The dairy does not release its sales numbers, Ver Ploeg said, but it makes 1 million pounds of blue cheese a year and buys 27,000 gallons of milk a day from small dairy farms within 15 miles of Newton.
www.rurdev.usda.gov /rbs/pub/jan05/value.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iowa saw a large increase in farming of beef, corn, and pork during World War I, but farmers saw economic hardships after the war.
The Farm Crisis of the 1980's saw a major decline of family farms in Iowa and around the Midwest, and it was marked by a sharp drop in the state's rural population.
Although Iowa's primary industry is agriculture, it also produces refrigerators, washing machines, fountain pens, farm implements, and food products that are shipped around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iowa   (2857 words)

  
 Left Coast Cheese
Today, I’ll share with you three of my excursions into the Golden State wilds: Fiscalini Farms and their superb, English clothbound cheddar, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company with their Original Blue™, and Cypress Grove Chèvre whose Fog Light is a new riff on a tried-and-true classic.
Fiscalini Farms in Modesto, CA is a relative newcomer to the cheesemaking business, having only been curdling milk for the last five years.
Fiscalini Farms is by far the largest farmstead cheese operation that I have witnessed, with over 1,500 Holstein cows.
www.artisanalcheese.com /prodinfo.asp?number=NP5008   (1059 words)

  
 emerils.com | notes from the kitchen
In the early 1940s, with the advice of agricultural researchers at Iowa State University, Maytag Dairy Farms made its first vat of blue cheese.
The blue mood is spreading along the East Coast to other cheese makers who want to capitalize on an increased desire for intense flavors and give Maytag a case of the competitive blues.  One of the candidates reaching for such stardom is Blythedale's Jersey Blue.
Around that time, a savvy professor of the Clemson College Dairy Department recognized the possibilities of curing blue mold cheese in the cold, wet air of the tunnel.
www.emerils.com /cooking/archives/000412.html   (842 words)

  
 Good Cooking's American Cheese Guide
American Dairy Association has granted Good Cooking permission to use its materials in compiling this Internet version of their Cheese Appreciation Guide.
He sold the farm after part was taken by the state under eminent domain to build the Taconic State Parkway.
Now on the land the original farmhouse is built up as a weekend restaurant for well-to-do travelers, and on the remaining land a very expensive multi-million dollar home perched on the highest hill with views of the Hudson River and the Catskills.
www.goodcooking.com /amcheese/amcheese.htm   (2240 words)

  
 UIAA
He worked at the Employee People's National Bank and at a dairy farm in Moravia and taught government and economics at the Moravia High School before joining the Maytag Dairy Farms in 1945.
In 1948, Miller was named to the board of directors of the dairy farms and as financial secretary to the Maytag Family.
Miller represented the Fred Maytag Family Foundation Board at the ground breaking ceremony for the Fred Maytag II Auditorium at the U of I's Museum of Art in 1966.
www.iowalum.com /daa/francismiller.html   (523 words)

  
 OPEN - Newton, Iowa
The railroad served not only the farms, but also the flourishing lumber mills of the late 19th century, the many manufacturers of farm implements, and most importantly the producers of washing machines.
This Fortune 500 company, founded in 1893 by Fred Maytag, is an international, four-billion dollar company with 20,000 employees in North America and 4,000 in China.
In 1941 Fred Maytag II established Maytag Dairy Farms which produces a top quality Blue Cheese using a special process developed by Iowa State University.
www.iowatelecom.net /~sistcity/newtoniowa.html   (355 words)

  
 Newton Iowa, Newton Iowa Real Estate, Newton Iowa Commercial Real Estate, Iowa Speedway, Homes for Sale in Newton Iowa ...
Maytag has scheduled a special meeting of stockholders for Aug. 19 to vote on the adoption of the merger agreement.
Maytag is entertaining takeover bids as it struggles with higher costs and lower profit in recent years.
Maytag announced on May 19 that it had agreed to an acquisition by an investor group led by Ripplewood Holdings for USD 2.1 bln.
www.newtoniowa.com /wst_page9.html   (8087 words)

  
 New Pioneer Co-op
Farming has been pushed to the economic margins by soaring land values, competition of cheaper products from abroad, and changing consumer preferences.
Produce and meat suppliers make up a large number of these vendors, but the number of local producers supplying our grocery and dairy departments is increasing.
Friendly Farms also supplies the produce department with tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach, and green beans.
www.newpi.com /updateable/update_display.cfm?pageID=2261   (580 words)

  
 Dairy Farms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dairy cows graze in a pasture with windmills from a wind farm
Drought Strategies for Dairy Producers Water Budgets for Dairy Farms* Because of concern that limitations might be placed on water use on dairies in the future without adequate information, several...
Udderly Moo-ving by Carol Masiello Images of New England dairy farms on the byways of rural towns with their picturesque barns and silos can summon memories in almost all of us, memories usually of...
www.mydairyfarming.com /dairy   (665 words)

  
 What's in Your Cheese?
For those who are interested in decreasing their intake of dairy foods, there are many substitutes available in addition to the soy cheese products previously listed.
For those who avoid cheese and other dairy products for ethical reasons, their opposition may stem from the connection between the dairy and veal industries, and the treatment of dairy cows on modern `factory farms.' They feel that these animals are viewed as `machines' and manipulated to produce as much as possible.
From an environmental standpoint, the dairy industry is another industry that many people feel is contributing to water pollution, deforestation,topsoil depletion, and other negative impacts on the earth.
www.natural-connection.com /resource/tnc_reference_library/cheese.html   (3435 words)

  
 EskieFriends- Giving Life a Second Chance
Maytag Dairy Farms, in Newton Iowa, was established by the heirs of Fred Maytag Sr., the founder of the Maytag appliance business.
In 1941 the Maytag family learned of a new process for making blue cheese developed at Iowa State University, in nearby Ames, and began to produce a handmade blue cheese that many acclaim as the finest blue cheese made in the United States--perhaps in the world.
The cheese is made from sweet, raw milk produced on the home farm or those nearby, and is aged for a minimum of six months in limestone caves carved specifically for the purpose.
www.eskiefriends.com /pages/01/04kr/desc.htm   (2547 words)

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