Class 1 – Current Cheddar
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Great Lakes Cheese Inc Rich Eveleigh 98
Silver Great Lakes Cheese Inc Joe Burnham 97.5
Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96
Class 2 – Aged Cheddar
Company Entry Name Score
Gold McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #2 96.5
Silver McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96
Award of Excellence: Great Lakes Cheese Inc Kyle Parker 95
Class 3 – “Super” Aged Cheddar
Company Entry Name Score
Gold McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #3 97
Silver McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #1 96
Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #2 95
Award of Excellence: McCadam Cheese Co. Cheese Team #4 95.5
Class 4 – Cottage Cheese – Full Fat
Company Entry Name Score
Gold HP Hood Arkport Kristin Crandall 98.5
Silver HP Hood Arkport Doug Wright 97.5
Award(s) of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative 96
Class 5 – Lowfat Cottage Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Upstate Niagara Cooperative 98.5
Silver HP Hood Arkport Rachel Ogorzalek 97.5
Award of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative 96.5
Class 6 – Nonfat Cottage Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold HP Hood Lafargeville 99
Silver HP Hood Arkport Amanda Wallace 97.5
Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Harley May 96.5
Class 7 – Cream Cheese/Neufchatel
Company Entry Name Score
Gold No Entries
Silver
Class 8 – Low Moisture Mozzarella
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Empire Cheese Co. Team One 95.5
Silver Sorrento Lactalis Inc 94.5
Class 9 – Ricotta Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Sorrento Lactalis Inc Whey Based Ricotta 99.5
Silver Kraft/Pollio Carl Space 97.5
Awards of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Whole Milk Ricotta 96.5
Awards of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Part Skim Ricotta 95
Class 10 – Provolone
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Empire Cheese Co. Team One 97.5
Silver Empire Cheese Co. Team Three 95
Class 11 — Cold Pack/Process Cheese
Company
Gold Yanceys Fancy Inc Pasteurized Grilled Bacon Cheeseburger 99.0
Silver Herkimer Cheese Co. Michael Basloe 98
Award Of Excellence: Herkimer Cheese Co. Mary Lowery 97
Class 12 – Flavored Natural Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Meiers Artisan Cheese Mild Pepper 98
Silver Palatine Valley Dairy Carol Spencer 97
Award of Excellence: Jigalin Cheese Gary Raiti 95
Award of Excellence: Kraft/Pollio Dave Atkinson 96.5
Class 13 – Open Class Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Yanceys Fancy, Inc Gouda Cheese 97.5
Silver McCadam Cheese Co Muenster 97
Award of Excellence: Old Chatham Sheepherding Co Camembert 96.5
Award of Excellence: Sorrento Lactalis Part Skim Mozz 96
Award of Excellence: Empire Cheese Co. String Cheese 96.5
Award of Excellence: Yanceys Fancy, Inc Bergenost 95.5
Award of Excellence: Kraft/ Pollio Mozzarella 96.5
Class 14 – Cheese from Milk Other Than Cows Milk
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Castle Farms Feta Cheese 98
Silver Blue Moon Bend LLC Frost Moon 97.5
Class 15 – Farmstead and Artisan Cow’s Milk Cheese
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Crosswinds Farm & Creamery Alpine Style 98
Silver Blue Moon Bend LLC Old Moon 97.5
Award of Excellence: Meiers Artisan Cheese Tomme Style 97
Class 16 – Sour Cream
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Friendship Dairies Inc Steve Power 99.5
Silver Friendship Dairies Inc Kevin Scott 98.5
Award of Excellence: HP Hood Lafargeville 95 Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Allan Rudolph 98
Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Tim Pierce 97.5
Class 17 – Buttermilk
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Friendship Dairies Inc Allan Rudolph 99.5
Silver Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 99
Award of Excellence: Stewarts Processing Corp 97.5
Award of Excellence: Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 97.5
Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Steve Power 97.5
Award of Excellence: Friendship Dairies Inc Kevin Scott 96.5
Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Amanda Wallace 97.5
Award of Excellence: HP Hood Arkport Charlie Robords 97
Class 18 – Dairy Dips
Company Entry Name Score
Gold HP Hood Arkport Mike Crouch 98.5
Silver Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc Bison Dip 96.5
Award(s) of Excellence: Herkimer Cheese Co Feta Dip 96.5
Class 19– Lowfat Yogurt
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc 96.5
Silver HP Hood Lafargeville LF Plain Yogurt 96
Class 20– Lowfat or Nonfat Strained or Greek-Style Yogurt
Company Entry Name Score
Gold Combined with Class 19
Silver
Class 21 – Fluid Milk
Company Score
Gold Upstate Buffalo 99.4
Silver Battenkill Creamery 99.2
Rounding out the top five, all with scores > 90.0 were:
Stewart’s
Upstate Rochester
Byrne Dairy
Class 22– Fluid Milk and Related Products
Company Entry Name Score
Gold
Silver
GRAND CHAMPION
Yancey’s Fancy Inc.
(Gouda)
Judges – 2014 Dairy Products Competition
Official Judges
Chief Judge, Charles Lindberg, NYS Dept. A + M
David K. Bandler, Cornell University (Prof. Emeritus)
John R. Bartell, SUNY Alfred (Retired)
Eric J. Dutton, NYS Dept. A+M (Retired)
Steve Murphy, Cornell University
Victoria Pedersen, NYS Dept. A+M
Rob Ralyea, Cornell University
Heather Spraker, NYS Dept. A+M
Amanda Zick, NYS Dept. A+M
David Buteyn, Vivolac
Betsy Maines, Wegmans
Judges Assisted by:
Robert Harrington (Retired), NYS Dept. A + M
