The 2026 World Championship Cheese Contest is underway at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, where dairy producers from around the world are submitting their best products ...

While Wisconsin may be home to the cheeseheads, the Netherlands leave Wisconsin as the cheese champions.

A Wisconsin cheese will not win top prize at this year's World Championship Cheese Contest. America's Dairyland was notably ...

Wisconsin is the cheese capital of the world, so it's only fitting the World Cheese Championship Contest is taking place this ...

Wisconsin dairy artisans earn 135 awards, including 44 best of class honors, more than any state or country, and more than the next five highest-earning competitors combined at the 2026 World ...

Thousands of dairy products from across the globe — including several made in western Wisconsin — are being judged at the World Championship Cheese Contest in ...

More than 100 cheesemaking companies call Wisconsin home. Our state has been crafting cheese for more than 180 years, which is one of the reasons we are the most awarded cheese making location in the ...

MADISON, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association announced on Tuesday that 2,414 entries representing dairy businesses from 31 states have entered the 2025 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest ...

MADISON, Wis. — It was a cheese lovers' delight during the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wis., recently. Cheesemakers, experts called cheesemongers, writers, and cheese aficionados from around ...

MADISON, Wis. (WKOW) – Cheese lovers flocked to the Cheese Fair Off The Square, held alongside the Dane County Farmers Market, to savor a wide range of Wisconsin cheeses. Nearly 20 cheesemakers ...

Dean Sommer tells the history of the dairy and cheese industries in Wisconsin. Dean Sommer, cheese technologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Dairy Research, tells the rich history ...