About Le Sueur Cheese Company

Saleable Products:

• Cheese
  • American types such as Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Colby and reduced fat varieties of those types
    • Packaged in 40lb blocks, 500lb barrels, and 640lb blocks
• BiPRO® - Whey Protein Isolate
• WPC 34%
• Valley Maid Lactose Powder
• Sweet Cream
• Whey Cream

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

Milk:

• 1,700,000 lbs of milk received daily from 350 dairies
• Average dairy milks approximately 80 cows
• Largest producer milks 3000 cows.
• All milk shipped within 200 miles of the plant

Milk Receiving:

• Receiving crews unload our raw milk and load-out pasteurized cream products
• 3 milk receiving bays unload at a rate of 7,350 lbs per minute
• 4 silos have 1.8 million lbs of milk storage capacity

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 time equal to less than 4 hours. All process equipment and conveying lines are washed daily with state of the art automation capabilities.

Driving Directions

From Minneapolis:
((MapQuest map/directions))

From the Mpls-St. Paul International Airport:

• Take 494 West to 169 South.
• Take the first LeSueur exit off 169 South.
• The exit curves around and goes under Highway 169. That road is North Main Street.
• LeSueur Cheese Company is on the left side of the street.
• There are three flags and a company sign in front of the office.

Contact Information

For more information on Davisco Cheese, please contact:
Jon.Davis@DaviscoFoods.com or Troy.Ammann@DaviscoFoods.com
Phone: 208-324-8806

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