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. |
| cheesecloth source | Karen Hooper, 51 Plaza Drive, Mill Valley, CA. 94941; 415-381-9381. This was submitted by a listserve member. |
| cheeselabels.com | Specializes in high resolution labels for cheese. Also barcodes and other promotional graphic products. No plates! |
| 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. |
| CHLA - Core Historical Literature of Agriculture | A couple thousand agricultural publications are available online in digital form at this site (Cornell University Library). Digital browsing and reading is clunky but it's a good way to peruse some titles that are hard to find in print. |
| Coquard | Another French supplier with many items not readily available in the U.S. French language proficiency is helpful. |
| Dahl Tech Plastics | Source of plastic bottles, recommended by e-mail list member. |
| Dairy Connection | Formerly a culture house, Dairy Connection has expanded to include molds, books and small equipment. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Home Cheese Home | Israeli site for home cheesemaking supplies. Owner promises it will be in English soon. |
| Interstate Milk Shippers |
FDA site includes list of "Certified Manufacturers Of Single-Service Containers and Closures And Related Products" plus information on regulations for milk products |
| 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! |
| Labwear | Just what it says. Recommended by listserv member because they offer 100% cotton lab coats. (CT) |
| 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. |
| Modesto Milling organic feeds |
Whole grains, a 16% protein lactating pellet, 13% protein pellet. We are certified by Oregon Tilth. |
| 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. |
| Scholle Corp | Suppliers of packaging, including bag-in-a-box. |
| Stanpac | The foremost supplier of glass milk bottles in the U.S. They also sell bottle washers and ice cream packaging. |
| 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). |
| Dairy Connection | Excellent source of cultures, rennet and other dairy supplies, oriented to the small producer, now including hobbyists. |
| 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. |
| Heather Lane Farm | certified grade B dairy that produces goat milk for local cheesemakers (near Asheville NC) |
| Kelley Supply | Cultures and other ingredients, lab supplies, packaging and safety supplies. Web site has links to regulatory agencies. |
| Symbiotech Solutions | Canadian culture house. Web site has nice chart listing cultures and their purposes. (Anyone have experience with them.?) |
| 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. |
| Bob White Systems, Inc. | Technology, equipment and ideas for the small scale farmstead production and sale of artisan and super premium dairy products. (VT) |
| Boumatic | International supplier of milking and other dairy equipment and supplies. |
| butter pat machine | On researching for a list member looking for a small-scale butter pat machine, I found the FLAD at several culinary equipment sites |
| 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 | Used dairy equipment out of Turkey; there are also links for new equipment such as filling machines. |
| Coburn Company | Dairy farm supplies, milk processing equipment. (WI) |
| Cole-Parmer | Laboratory equipment, good source of pH meters. |
| Cool Bot | Thermostatic controller that turns a standard air conditioner into a cooler that works down to near freezing temperature. COOL! |
| 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) |
| DairyLink | Easy to use web site featuring classified ads for dairy (not creamery) and farm equipment, dairy forum and links to other sites. |
| 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. |
| DR Tech, Inc | Custom stainless steel equipment (MN) |
| EBR Equipment | Small processing dairy equipment and engineering. |
| Egli AG | Butter equipment manufacturer in Switzerland. |
| Eischen Enterprises | Specializes in reconditioned equipment for dairy processing. (CA) |
| Emery Thompson Ice Cream Freezers | Builders of batch freezers in the USA for the frozen dessert industry for over 100 years. Emery Thompson, grandfather of our President & CEO Steve Thompson, invented & patented the modern day batch freezer. |
| Feldmeier Equipment | Small and large stainless steel fabrication. One cheesemaker in NE had them create a pasteurizer for him. |
| Flow Management LLC | Offers high quality sanitary pump seals, valve, and replacement parts at low prices. |
| Francis Creek Electronics | Manufacturers of dairy milking equipment, specializing in automatic take-off. |
| Fromagex | 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) |
| 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. Phone 301-824-3689. |
| Microthermics | (According to them), the leading manufacturer of laboratory and small production scale pasteurizers and aseptic processing equipment. (NC) |
| 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. |
| Oystar Benhil | Filling, wrapping and sealing machines. |
| 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 | Specializes in bulk milk coolers. 765-455-8664 (IN) |
| Portable Milkers | Dairy equipment and supplies, plus equipment for home-scale processing. |
| Qualtech | Nice pasteurizers in sizes starting at 125 liters (about 33 gallons), plus other cheese and butter equipment. Bilingual web site. (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. |
| Wilpack Packaging | Specializes in equipment and supplies for sealing cups with foil seals, including small table-top models. (Illinois) |
| Winchell Butter Churns | plus other custom equipment, (608) 462-8456 (Wisconsin) |
| Winpak | Packaging equipment. |
| 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 |
| Jim Amory Jumpstart Cheese Resource |
consulting on site, laboratory cheese analysis; 800-859-5196; click here for a PDF of the prospectus for Jumpstart |
| Neville McNaughton CheezSorce |
cheesemaking, plant design, aging rooms, cheesemaker training |
| Margaret Morris Glengarry Cheesemaking |
cheesemaking, cultures, course instruction, floor plan design |
| Dave Potter Dairy Connection |
cultures specialist |
| Harold Schuller C. van't Reit Technology a.k.a. Schuller (in U.S.) |
specializes in Dutch-style cheeses, as well as excellent cheese making equipment |
| Dan Strongin Edible Solutions |
focus on helping small food companies make better products and profits |
| Malcolm Stogo | international ice cream consultant |
| 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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