#TGD: Foremost Farms to layoff more than 100 at cheese plants

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Foremost Farms, one of the state’s largest dairy cooperatives, is closing a cheese plant and idling another plant indefinitely – resulting in more than 100 employee layoffs.
The Baraboo-based cooperative says it’s closing a plant in Alma Center that makes mozzarella cheese for foodservice markets and is idling a plant in Waumandee which makes cheddar cheese.
The Alma Center plant closing will result in the loss of 52 jobs on June 30, while the idling of the Waumandee plant will result in indefinite layoffs for about 50 employees, also on June 30.
Foremost says it’s consolidating the production from the two plants into its other plants in Appleton, Richland Center, Milan and Marshfield.
«Last year our members marketed a record 6 billion pounds of milk,» said Foremost President Dave Fuhrmann. «Even though we are reducing our plant and employee numbers, we are not downsizing the volume of cheese produced by Foremost Farms or reducing our ability to handle our members’ milk. Rather, we plan to further expand Foremost Farms’ cheese production from last year’s record of 525 million pounds to an even greater level.»
 
Source: Journal Sentinel Online

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