In Wisconsin, some agricultural officials are playing the role of matchmaker. They're bringing together the state's cheesemakers with prospective international buyers for a unique speed-dating event, hoping, in part, to ease the tariff pain affecting Wisconsin cheesemakers. They are specifically targeting new markets in countries they don't usually sell to. It's especially timely because of retaliatory tariffs on dairy products from the U.S. by Mexico and China.
In a beer hall of a Milwaukee microbrewery on a recent morning, Gene Graf of Barron County Cheese is among cheesemakers setting up shop.
He's laid out three plates of cheese samples on a white tablecloth.
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