World-class cheese is all around us in Oregon.
From our largest cheese producers like Tillamook and Rogue, who won the world’s best cheese in 2019, to some of our smallest producers like Helvetia Creamery and Don Froylan, who won the best string cheese in the country for two years in a row.
And while Oregon doesn’t produce the quantity of cheese like Wisconsin, Idaho, or other leading states do today — Oregon punches above its weight class in terms of quality. And the production of cheese has also shaped the history of the state.
To read more, please visit Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB).
