Locations

About The Jerome Cheese Company

A Division of Davisco Foods International, Inc.
Magic Valley Maid Fine Dairy Products
547 W Nez Perce Jerome, Idaho 83338
Phone: 208-324-8806
Fax: 208-324-8892

Everyday at Jerome Cheese:

  • 90+ truckloads of raw milk received
  • 15+ truckloads of cheese shipped
  • 7+ truckloads of whey powder shipped all over U.S. and overseas.
  • An average of 3 loads of cream shipped to butter and ice cream plants across the United States.
  • Over 400,000 gal. (about 3,400,000 lbs.) of useable water is produced.
  • 5,200,000 lbs. of milk is processed into 520,000 lbs. of cheese.

Cheese Processing:

  • Pasteurizer processes 265,000 lbs. of raw milk per hour.
  • 13 horizontal cheese vats have the capacity of 55,000 lbs. of milk each.
  • 1 Scherping DMM Belt and Salting belt able to process 31,000 pounds of cheese an hour
  • 12 Wicanton Block Forming Towers
  • PLCs control variables such as pump speed, flow rates, cook time, cook temp, and cultures.
  • Lab analyzes cheese in process so operators can adjust cheese make if necessary.

Whey Processing:

  • November of 1997, Jerome Cheese Company completed expanding of its present facility by over 67,000 sq. ft. to include the ability to process Whey Protein Isolate, BiPRO®, a patented Davisco Foods specialty product. We are now able to process Alpha-lactalbumin and Beta-lactoglobulin. The expansion also tripled the warehousing capacity of the plant.

State of the Art:

  • 46 PLCs control virtually the entire plant, all capable of communication between each other.
  • 250 employees are responsible for receiving, processing, packaging, maintaining, and analyzing products.

Milk:

  • 6,500,000 lbs. of milk received daily from 85 dairies.
  • Average dairy milks 950 cows.
  • Largest milk producer milks over 8,000 cows.
  • Top 10 Jerome cheese milk producers provide over 50 million lbs. of milk.
  • All Producers are located within 50 miles of the plant.

Milk Receiving:

  • Four bays unload at a rate of 11,000 lbs. per minute.
  • Eight 60,000 gal. silos hold 4,000,000 lbs. of milk.
  • 3 twenty thousand gal. silos for cream storage when producing fat-free cheese.
  • A seven thousand gal. silo for storage of whey cream.