Small Tramway cheese co op closes after 73 years
Tramway Cooperative Cheese Factory near Menomonie and Boyceville ends operations after 73 years as 28 farmer owners merge with Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative. Milk will shift to Clear Lake plant and then Barron for cheddar. Equity unpaid for two years. one patron had already chosen another plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tramway Cooperative
Menomonie
Boyceville
Wisconsin Dairies
Clear Lake Plant
Barron
Tramway
Charlie Smith
Co-Op
The
Mid-Am
Bloomer
Turtle Lake
Tramway Co op Cheese Factory Closes After 63 Years
The Tramway Co op Cheese Factory in western Dunn County ends operations after decades of serving local dairy farmers. Chairman Bill Hintz notes a move to merge with a larger co‑op to ensure full equity payments for 28 patrons, while centenarian observer Carl Stokke recalls founding and bygone meetings. The plant, built in 1908 and incorporated in 1929, shipped to Kraft for 40 years and faced dwindling returns before dissolution tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard
Bill) Hintz
Tiny Tramway
Tramway Cooperative Cheese Factory
Bill Hintz
Wisconsin
Carl Stokke
Boyceville
Mr. Stokke
Tramway Co-op
Walter Schutts
Harry Clark
Louis Behling
Fred Wyss
Tramway Co-op Cheese Factory
Stokke
Tramway
New Richmond
Tramway Cooperative
Dunn County
World Daily Expo schedules dairy events and banquets
The program lists daily dairy focused activities from September 30 to October 2 including national 4-H judging and intercollegiate contests, breed shows for Ayrshire Milking Shorthorn Guernsey Brown Swiss Holstein and Jersey, drawings for MP Plus units liquid nitrogen refrigerators and dairy feed ingredients, and multiple receptions banquets and awards at venues such as Sheraton Inn Heritage House The Forum and Concourse Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oon Central
Nat'l Ayrshire
Nat'l
Nat'l Dairy
Sheraton Inn
Heritage House
the Forum
Nat'l Guernsey
Central
American Breeders Service
Dairy Shrine Club
FBI
Concourse Hotel
William Powell
Princeton
Mid-America Dairymen Inc
Glenn Lake
North Branch
Mich
Audrey Sickinger
Cato
Wis
Mid-America FFA Dairy Judging and Antique Tractor Events
The program lists a two day schedule for Saturday and Sunday with events at 8:00 a.m. including the Mid-America FFA Dairy Judging Contest and World Holstein Forum at the Sheraton Inn. Other highlights are a 12:30 p.m. Antique Tractor Pull a 1:00 p.m. Dairy Heifers drawing and a 3:00 p.m. champion selection along with a 3:00 p.m. grand door prize drawing for a 1982 pickup truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheraton Inn
Tri-State Breeders Cooperative
of America
Chevrolet
Americas International
World Dairy Expo draws record cattle entries Madison
The 15th World Dairy Expo opens with a record 2244 cattle entered and about 1600 expected to show. Breeds include Ayrshire 252 Brown Swiss 404 Guernsey 260 Holstein 797 Jersey 188 Milking Shorthorn 343. Events, judging, seminars, and a dairy shrine dedication accompany exhibits and contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Dairy Expo
Bradley W. Rugg
Fort Atkinson
Dairy Show
Ayrshire
Guernsey
Jersey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative
Baraboo
Hintz
Minnesota
Iowa
AMPI
Stella Cheese Factory
Clayton
Cooperative
Green Bay
Ing
Wisconsin Farmers Union
Tramway Coop
Gus Stokke
George
Robert Arnison
Ole Freseth
Herman Kieckhafer
Hans Overby
Charles Meier
Rt. G. Menmonie
World Daily Expo
SUN
Madison
Jerseys
Japan
International Visitors
Greater Madison
State Agriculture Department
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service
Mid-America
FFA
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