Resources
| SmallDairy Bookshelf | New & used dairy-related books (including rare books), plus two serial publications. Occasionally audio and video items are available. |
| Alliance Pastorale | French site with many dairy, creamery and marketing supplies; may be a bit difficult to work with if you don't speak French. |
| Caprine Supply | Milking and veterinary supplies, a few books and publications, a few cheesemaking items. Strong emphasis on goats. |
| CheeseLinks | Home and commercial scale cheesemaking supplier in Australia. |
| The Cheesemaker | Specialty supplies, books and kits for making homemade Brie, Camembert and blue cheese |
| Cheesereporter.com | Cheese Reporter is a weekly trade publication, mostly devoted to world trade in cheese, but with occasional interesting topics for the rest of us. They also sell books (mostly textbooks) and videos. |
| Coquard | Another French supplier with many items not readily available in the U.S. French language proficiency is helpful. |
| Dairy Connection | Excellent source of cultures, rennet and other dairy supplies, oriented to the small producer, now including hobbyists. |
| Dairyland Packaging Co. | Source of gift boxes imprinted with dairy cow design, with or without a holiday bow around the cow's neck. (608) 798-2247. Other packaging available as well. |
| Danlac | Canadian supplier with interesting assortment of cultures, enzymes and other items. Wide range of cheesemaking recipes available for $5 each, or free with culture purchase. |
| Formaticum | Providers of small quantities of cheese papers for home cheesemakers. Other supplies as well. |
| Fromagex | If you are looking for access to French cultures and equipment, try Fromagex. Their site is bilingual and personnel are very friendly. They have an excellent on-line catalogue and will special order. |
| Glengarry Cheesemaking & Dairy Supply | Another great Canadian site where you can find imported equipment and supplies, including Dutch and French items. Web site and customer service folks are bilingual and easy to work with. |
| The Grape and Granary | Source of home cheesemaking supplies. |
| Grower's Discount Labels | Specializing in labels for growers and processors, Growers' Discount Labels is fast and reliable. They can make labels from your art work or help you with your design. |
| Hamby Dairy Supply | Books, kits and processing items can be found on Hamby's e-Bay store. |
| Hoegger Goat Supply | Excellent selection of home dairy supplies and equipment, new books and magazines, with emphasis on goats and homesteading. |
| Home Beer Wine Cheesemaking Shop | Cheesemaking supplies sold on walk-in (Ventura Hills CA) or call-in basis. No online sales. |
| Kelley Supply | Cultures and other ingredients, lab supplies, packaging and safety supplies. Web site has links to regulatory agencies. |
| Khimaira Farm | A rather eclectic mixture: Khimaira offers goat-oriented gifts, some obscure dairy publications, breeding stock, the Weck pasteurizer and web hosting. Khimaira hosts smalldairy.com! |
| Lacroix Packaging Emballages Lacroix |
Bilingual Canadian web site specializing in wooden and cardboard cheese packaging. |
| Leener's You-Make-Kit | Popular site for home cheesemakers. Kits, supplies, cultures and a few books. Also kits for making butter, ice cream, wine, beer, sourdough, even bubble gum! |
| Lehman's | Many homesteaders are familiar with the Amish catalog that offered non-electric items. Now they are online with a good selection of home dairy supplies, some hard to find. |
| M&M Industries | Source of nice food-grade buckets that can be used to transport milk and for many other farm purposes. Their web site works poorly for me but Customer Service is easy to work with. |
| Moorlands Cheesemakers | Cheesemaking supplier in U.K. |
| Nelson-Jameson | This is an old, reliable Wisconsin dairy supply company. I've found them especially helpful when it comes to valves, laboratory supplies, hairnets, gloves and the like. Keep their catalog handy! |
| New England Cheesemaking Supply | For years, NECS was the place to go for home cheesemaking supplies and books. They still are, but have recently expanded to offer services and equipment to small-scale commercial processors. |
| Presque Isle Wine | My favorite site for laboratory equipment and supplies. |
| PureLabs | Sister company to Boumatic. Specializes in sanitation chemicals. Free pocket guide when you mention smalldairy web site. |
| Quality Containers of New England, Inc |
Supplier of plastic and glass bottles, plus custom labeling services. |
| The Rag Lady | Source of cheesecloth in bulk and various grades. |
| Recorder Charts and Pens | Suppliers of temperature recorder charts and pens for chart recorders, pastuerization units, chillers and refridgeration units. |
| Stanpac | The foremost supplier of glass milk bottles in the U.S. They also sell bottle washers and ice cream packaging. |
| Symbiotech Solutions | Canadian culture house. Web site has nice chart listing cultures and their purposes. (Anyone have experience with them.?) |
| Udderly E-Z Milker | Manually operated hand-milking gadget, supposedly useful for people with arthritic hands. I have received several complaints from customers who say this doesn't work for them and that they have difficulty getting their money back.  Contact information removed because of multiple complaints. |
| C. van't Reit Technology a.k.a. Schuller (in U.S.) |
Cultures, moulds, and more (also see their listing under Equipment). |
| Agri Service LLC | See Dairy Heritage |
| French catalogue with dairy equipment to die for. | |
| ALPMA | German maker of cheese and butter equipment, available from Ivarson in US. |
| Analytical Technologies | Milk testing equipment for fat, protein, lactose and total solids. |
| Anderson Instrument Co. | Producers of most commonly used chart recorders for the small-scale dairy industry. |
| Asilmak | Manufacturers of cup filling machines (Turkey) |
| Bequet | Another French web site with a variety of cheesemaking equipment. |
| Boumatic | International supplier of milking and other dairy equipment and supplies. |
| C&P Dairy Equipment | Specializes in used bulk tanks. Pete Kupferschmid, (765) 455-8664 (Indiana) |
| Carpigiani-USA | Italian-made ice cream & gelato machines, whipped cream dispensers. See Frozen Dessert University. |
| Cemre Makina | yogurt cup-filling machines out of Turkey |
| Coburn Company | Dairy farm supplies, milk processing equipment. (WI) |
| Cole-Parmer | Laboratory equipment, good source of pH meters. |
| Coquard | French supplier with interesting equipment. Web catalogue is somewhat difficult to use, but you can order paper copy. |
| curdknives.com | see Dairy Fab LLC |
| Dairy Engineering Co | dairy equipment fabrication, also used equipment |
| Dairy Fab LLC | Specializes in custom curd knives and harps, including repairs. |
| Dairy Heritage | Manufacturer of small to mid sized dairy and cheese equipment. Also nice selection of used equipment. (Maryland) |
| Danlac | Cheese, butter, yogurt equipment & more. (Alberta, Canada) |
| Darlington Dairy Supply | Design, engineering, fabrication, installation, start-up services. Cheese on Wheels modular dairy plant. (Wisconsin) |
| Doug Care Equipment | Food processing equipment, vacuum packaging and vacuum sealers, shrink wrap machines and other types of sealing machines used by both industry and home packers & processors. |
| EBR Equipment | Small processing dairy equipment and engineering. |
| Feldmeier Equipment | Small and large stainless steel fabrication. One cheesemaker in NE had them create a pasteurizer for him. |
| Fromagex | (also see Books & Supplies) Fromagex carries a variety of imported equipment. (Quebec, Canada) |
| G. W. Kent | Suppliers of creamery and cheese production equipment. Looks interesting but they require you to sign up to view the catalog. (MI) |
| Genemco | New and used food processing equipment. You can even get weekly e-mail updates. (Texas) |
| Girton Oakes & Burger | Equipment and consultation for setup. (PA, KY, OH, NY) |
| Goat Head Dairy | Offers old Dutch lever style (single, double or triple) and air cheese presses, as well as microperforated cheese molds. (CO) |
| Gordon Instrument Labs | New dairy thermometers, also rebuilds them (Peoria IL) |
| Hamby Dairy Supply | Dairy equipment, a few processing items. (Missouri) |
| Heritage Equipment Co | New and used processing equipment (Ohio) |
| Hinkel Associates | Used equipment in North Carolina. 800-451-3418. |
| Indian Tuff-Tank | Custom-made pasteurizers, vats and other stainless equipment. Phone 336-272-8270. (North Carolina) |
| International Machinery Exchange | New and used processing equipment. Custom Duo-Vat pasteurizer, filling and packaging equipment. (Wisconsin) |
| Ivarson, Inc | Butter and cheese equipment. I've never had them answer an e-mail, so call if you have a question. (Wisconsin) |
| Jaybee Precision | Makers of The Vat pasteurizer, now in both 15- and 30-gallon sizes. New models 3-A approved. Leasing and financing available. |
| Kleen-Flo | New U.S. manufacturer of small-scale dairy processing items, including pasteurizers. Custom work available. (Indiana) |
| Kusel Equipment | Cheese vats and other processing equipment, new and used. (Wisconsin) |
| Lehman Equipment Co | On-line trading site for used food processing equipment, worldwide. Monthly e-mail newsletter. |
| Meltec | Dairy equipment (animal side - no processing equipment that I see). They have many distributors nationwide. |
| MicroDairy Designs | NEW fabricator of very small-scale commercial vat pasteurizers, 2 to 12 gallon processing capacity. PDF brochure available. |
| Midstate Dairy Systems | removed from list due to multiple complaints |
| Milk-Pro | Pasteurizers and chillers developed for smallholder farms, particularly in developing countries. Milk is pasteurized in closed containers. There is a U.S. agent but I don't believe this system is legal for human food in the U.S. at this time. (South Africa) |
| Milking Solutions | Manufacturer and supplier of spare parts and equipment for Gascoigne Melotte milking machines |
| Mini Turnkey Dairy | Dairy equipment and consulting; Suruchi Consultants. (India) |
| NC State University Pasteurizer Lending Program | Small pasteurizers available for one year loan with option to buy, NC residents only. $1500 refundable deposit required. |
| Nunsuch/2nd2Nun | New 30- and 50-gallon pasteurizers. |
| Page & Pederson Intl | Primary product of interest is the Lacti-Check Milk Analyzer, which determines fat, solids, protein, added water and density. |
| Parts Department | New milking equipment and many parts for existing systems. (Turn your sound down before clicking on link.) Interesting "online milking school" describing how milking systems work. |
| Pete's Dairy Equipment | Specialist in bulk tanks (Indiana); 765-455-8664 One complaint received. Inspect and get guarantees in writing. |
| Pladot Mini-Dairy | Turnkey installations for dairy processing. May include training in equipment operation. Super-expensive, mostly suitable for those with plenty of money but little experience. (Israel); One buyer says stainless steel quality is poor and bottling equipment difficult to adjust. |
| Portable Milkers | Dairy equipment and supplies, plus equipment for home-scale processing. |
| Qualtech | Pasteurizers in sizes starting at 125 liters (about 33 gallons), plus other cheese and butter equipment. Bilingual web site. Some reports of difficulties with customer service and setup, as well as poor documentation. (Quebec, Canada) |
| Rodem | Processing equipment and design. (Midwest) |
| Rowlands Sales Co | New and used processing equipment, design and setup services, reconditioning and fabrication. (Pennsylvania) |
| Schier Company | Large inventory of used dairy processing equipment. (Oklahoma) |
| Stanpac | Online classifieds for used bottling and other equipment. |
| A. Steele Co. | Farmers' market equipment - scales, cash registers, canopies, wireless credit card terminal, more. |
| Tetra-Pak | Tetra Pak Hoyer is the world's largest manufacturer of continuous ice cream freezers and ice cream processing equipment. |
| Ullmers Dairy Equipment | Used dairy and processing equipment. (Wisconsin) |
| C. van't Reit Technology a.k.a. Schuller (in U.S.) |
Nice 13-265 gallon (50-1000 liter) pasteurizers imported from Holland, plus cheese and butter equipment. (Pennsylvania) |
| Vinothèque | Equipment and interactive tutorial for building a home wine cellar which, incidentally, might make a good cheese cave. |
| Winchell Butter Churns | plus other custom equipment, (608) 462-8456 (Wisconsin) |
| Wisconsin Dairy Supply | Primarily bulk tanks, but also carry some other used equipment. Spanish-friendly (hablan español). |
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Also visit the new Marketplace page for classified ads and the Virtual Tour page to see how other creameries have met the legal requirements to start a dairy processing business!
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| Consultants | |
| Kathy Biss (Scotland) West Highland Dairy |
cheesemaking, course instruction, general consulting |
| Cheese Snob | consultant for those interested in learning more about marketing cheese, especially in cheese shops; on-site consultations |
| Peter Dixon Dairy Foods Consulting |
cheesemaking, other dairy products, facilities design, problem resolution, course instruction |
| Temple Grandin | livestock behavior, livestock facilities design, humane slaughter |
| Gray-Robinson's Food Law Group |
group of lawyers and former regulators who offer guidance and advice regarding federal and state laws that govern the production, processing, distribution and retail sale of food and beverages |
| Eldore Hanni Farmstead Fresh Inc |
training in making a variety of farmstead natural cheeses |
| Neville McNaughton CheezSorce |
cheesemaking, plant design, aging rooms, cheesemaker training |
| Margaret Morris Glengarry Cheesemaking |
cheesemaking, cultures, course instruction, floor plan design |
| Ocelli Microscopy | Direct microscopic counts (DMC) and standard plate counts (SPC) done as a service to dairy farmers. (North Carolina) |
| Dave Potter Dairy Connection |
cultures specialist |
| Dan Strongin Edible Solutions |
focus on helping small food companies make better products and profits |
| Suruchi Consultants | dairy plant engineering and consulting (India) |
| Tharp & Young | consultants on ice cream processing |
| Jim Wallace | consultant associated with New England Cheesemaking Supply |
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Listing on this site does not constitute an endorsement. smalldairy.com is not responsible for faulty equipment or poor business practices. However, if you encounter such problems from any of the dealers listed here, please contact me with details on the transaction. Though I recognize it is possible that in some cases the dealer is not at fault in a dispute, contact information for repeat offenders will be removed from the list. On the occasion of a first complaint the dealer is marked with Buyer Beware
It is recommended that you get all guarantees in writing and check equipment thoroughly before purchasing. Beware of pressure tactics to force a quick decision.
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