CHILTON — Some farmers play polka or country music to soothe their cows during the twice-daily milking routine.
Not so for the 325 goats at LaClare Farm just outside of Chilton. For this curious herd and its two handlers, the boom box last week was tuned to Appleton's WAPL-FM, one of the state's most powerful rock stations.
But the goats, who heard Head East, Pink Floyd and AC/DC, also had no idea they were being milked by one of the rising rock stars of cheesemaking.
At just 26, Katie Hedrich is off to an impressive start in a field dominated by men, many of whom are twice or more her age.
Last year, at the U.S. Cheese Championships in the atrium of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Hedrich, then 25, took best of show with her Evalon, an aged hard goat's milk cheese, and became just the second female cheesemaker to win the award.
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