Since 1996, I have been operating a dairy foods consulting business for
clients in the US. My projects have included:
- Designing a cave for Cato Corner Farm
- Developing two cow milk cheeses for Vermont Shepherd
- Assisting in the expansion plans and developing new cheeses for Haystack
Mountain Goat Dairy
- Assisting in the start-up of the following cheese businesses: Taylor
Farm Farmstead Gouda, Neighborly Farms of Vermont, Mecox Bay Dairy,
Brovetto Dairy and Cheese House, Chenango Historic Cheese, and Clover
Mead Farm
Other clients include: Green Mountain Blue, Cobb Hill Farm, Goat Lady
Dairy, Pedrozo Dairy, Estrella Family Creamery, Chase Hill Farm, Sprout Creek Farm, Three Ring Farm, Black Sheep Creamery, Woodcock Farm, and Berle Farm.
I provide the following services to dairy foods processors of cow,
goat and sheep milk, either industrial or farmstead:
- Business planning, e.g., operations, infrastructure, cash flow analysis,
and capital equipment and production costs.
- Locating new and used equipment for milk storage and processing.
- Designing milk processing plants and farm cheese making facilities
and expansions of current facilities including; layout and materials,
heating and cooling and air handling systems, processing equipment and
sanitation systems, and cheese aging rooms and finished product storage
coolers.
- Researching and developing dairy products for businesses such as traditional
and specialty cheese varieties, fresh cultured products, butter and
ice cream.
- Training and technical assistance to businesses in dairy foods manufacturing
and quality control, for maintaining high product quality standards.
- Teaching workshops to beginning and advanced cheese makers.
Peter
Dixon, Dairy Foods Consulting
PO Box 993
Putney, VT 05346 USA
phone/fax: 802.387.4041
dixonpeter@mac.com
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