Hearing Scheduled for Colby Cheese Bill

Thursday, July 1st, 2021 -- 10:20 AM

A hearing scheduled for an assembly bill making Colby Cheese the official state cheese is happening July 7th at 10am in the capitol.

Colby cheese was first born right here in Wisconsin, right here in Clark County in the City of Colby. Colby began as a farm family recipe, dreamed up by a young man on the floor of his father’s small, wooden cheese factory in the rich farmland of central Wisconsin.

Colby is one of the most popular cheeses in America. Colby is one of the fastest-growing cheese varieties in the US. More than 65 Wisconsin cheesemakers produce over 40 kinds of Colby, totaling 45 million lbs of Colby each year, and Wisconsin cheesemakers have won more than 100 awards for their Colby.

Colby has even taken the top prize at the World Championship Cheese Contest when Julie Hook, of Hook’s Cheese in Mineral Point, became the first and only woman to be named World Champion for her Colby.

LRB-2232 and LRB-1662 celebrates and honors this history and the role that Colby has played in making Wisconsin America’s Dairyland by designating Colby as the official state cheese and including it alongside our other state symbols in the Wisconsin Blue Book.

Two local legislatures, Senator Kathy Bernier and Representative Donna Rozar introduced the bill.  Again, the hearing will by July 7th at 10am.

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