Who Moved NH's Cheese?

Vermont has a great dairy farming tradition, which includes the making of world-famous cheeses. The Granite State also has a rich dairy tradition. where are the state's cheese makers?

According to the NH Department of Agriculture, there are only three cow's milk and five goat's milk cheese makers in the state. To put it in perspective, the Vermont Department of Agriculture reports there are 40 cheese makers in its state.

Marcus Lovell-Smith is the farm director of Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole and the largest' of the cheese makers in NH. He says one of the reasons there fewer cheese makers involves simple math.

"There are 95,000 dairy cows in Vermont. There are only 18,000 here," LovellSmith says.

Lovell-Smith says the market was primarily for cheeses like baby Swiss. However, he says just as the taste for wine has expanded in the past decade, the cheese market is primed to make a similar transformation, which could expand the market in NH.