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Bongards Creameries has just approved another $125 million expansion that will allow for more intake of milk and higher production of cheese and whey.

It is a race against time and gravity as homes and businesses around the Lake Tahoe area are under the threat of crushing rooftops.

Zippy Duvall is a poultry, cattle and hay producer from Georgia and is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He wrote the following letter to members.

The donation represents enough cheese to serve over 25,000 families. Written By: News Staff | × The new Bongards Retail Cheese Store in Perham features wall-to-wall coolers full of more than 200 different varieties of cheese. Store Manager Linda Ogroske said cheese samples will be offered nearly every day, especially in the summers. Marie Johnson/FOCUS Bongards Creameries, a leading national cheese manufacturer, is pleased to announce a charitable contribution of over 18,000 pounds of cheese to help local food banks in the Minnesota and Tennesee communities in which they operate. The dona...

The organizations are locally in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as well as in Tennessee. Written By: News Staff | × Elizabeth Huwe/FOCUS At Bongards’, raw milk comes in by the semi-tanker to begin the cheese making process. After a truck arrives, a sample of the milk is taken and sent to Bongards’ lab to be tested. Tests are run to check for antibiotics or other contaminants. If the milk isn’t pure, it is never unloaded or used. After given the (literal) green light, a vacuum hose is attached to the truck’s spigot and the milk enters a series of stainless steel pipes to go into th...