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What Affects
Cheese Quality
and Taste?
Gary Zimmer
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MOSES 2008
Organic Farm of the Year
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135 dairy farms
6 cheese
factories
Award winning
cheeses at
Bigelow
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It’s the diet!
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What is quality?
Balanced minerals
High Ca, P, Mg, traces
High digestibility
High fat
N:S ratio
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•Mineralized soil
produces high
quality forages
which yield
•Healthy
productive
livestock with:
•Minimal
health
complications
•Breed back
easily
•Efficiently
produce ample
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100%
forage/pasture
s
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It’s the breed and
climate
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It’s the season
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Spring
Cows calving
Fresh grass
Cool temperatures
Pasture is part of diet
Butterfat is Good Protein is High
Somatic Cell count is Low
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Summer
Hot temperatures/ Lower feed
intake
Pasture is largest part of diet
Flies a problem
Butterfat is Down Protein is Down
Somatic Cell count is Higher
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Fall Plants more mature
Comfortable temperatures
Pasture is part of diet
Butterfat Fat goes up Protein is Higher
Somatic Cell Count is Down
Cows gearing up for winter
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Winter
Cows Confined
No Pasture: stored feeds
No bugs Feed intake is up
Highest Butterfat; Highest Protein;
Lowest SCC Richest Milk
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It’s what we do
and how we do it
that makes
award winning
cheeses.