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About The Le Sueur Cheese Company

A Division of Davisco Foods International, Inc.
Valley Maid Fine Dairy Products
719 North Main Street Le Sueur, Minnesota 56058-1404
Phone: 507-665-3353
Fax: 507-665-2820

Everyday at Le Sueur Cheese

• 50+ Truckloads of raw milk received
• Over 200,000 lbs of cheese produced
• 5+ truckloads of cheese shipped
• An average of 2+ tanker loads of cream shipped to butter and ice cream plants across the United States
• 13,300 lbs of whey cream produced
• 3+ truckloads of whey powder shipped all over U.S. and overseas
• Over 355,000 gals. (about 2,957,150 lbs.) of usable water is produced

Cheese Processing

• Milk Pasteurizer processes 90,000 lbs of raw milk per hour
• 6 cheese vats have the capacity of 52,000 lbs of milk per vat
• 8 Stoelting Block Forming Cheese Towers
• PLC’s control variables such as pump speed flow rates, volume, cook time & temp
• On-site laboratory analyzes cheese to support production needs

State of the Art

• Le Sueur Cheese Company, a division of Davisco Foods International, Inc., employs 127 people in various capacities to operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our production run time averages 20 hours per day with a turnaround of 4 hours. All process equipment and conveying lines are washed daily with state of the art automation capabilities.